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Escape
With all the stuff going around in the world, sometimes it is just nice to escape it all and follow the Olympics. No matter what country you are from you can drape your hopes around the flag of your country. So many different sports to choose from such as hockey and figure skating, on the ice, to skiing, on the hills.
The best thing it’s not just a one day break, it’s a two week break.
That’s all I have for today.
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Mid term Nightmare
There must be days that Donald Trump looks at Vladimir Putin and thinks why can’t I be in his position? Putin is leader for life and the elections are guaranteed.
Donald Trump is facing the midterms in November with a 37% approval rating. It is not going to be pretty for him at all. He is contemplating various options in bringing the elections his way. He has suggested having ICE agents at the polling booths. The head of ICE, last week, testified before Congress that there’s no need for ICE agents to be at polling booths. Trump suggested that the elections in each state fall under federal authority. That’s not going to happen. He is again complaining about mail in ballots. There are rumours now that he might use executive orders to change election rules. That could result in full-fledged civil disobedience.
Trump was desperately hoping to involve the insurrection act. He raised the temperature in Minnesota, hoping that there would be riots in response. But there were none. Minnesota officials, such as the governor of the state, and the mayor of Minneapolis, told people to protest but protest calmly, and they did. ICE is now pulling back from Minnesota with their tails between their legs.
The frightening part, with the midterms now nine months away, is that Trump will get more desperate in finding ways to alter or completely eliminate the midterms. How far will Trump go?
That is all I have for today.
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No Crying In Curling
I was watching an Olympics curling game between Sweden and Canada and a hockey fight almost broke out.
Tom Hanks, in the movie ‘ a league of their own’ came out with the following famous line.
“there is no crying in baseball“
In the ninth end of this game, there was a flurry of accusations launched by one of the Swedish curlers against Mark Kennedy of the Canadian team. The back-and-forth heated up to involve F bombs. Tempers flared, but fortunately no fisticuffs resulted.
These tempers carried onto the post game press conferences, and continued to the next day. The World Curling Association had to step in and tell everybody to chill out.
I’m not gonna try to explain as to the accusation that was made by the Swedish team. Just leave it at one touch over the hog line. Even though the Swedish curler says that he has the video to prove the infraction, the video is not clear at all. The accusation might’ve had an effect on the Canadian team in that they lost their next game. We will see how it affects them for the rest of the round robin.
All I know, is that the skip, for the Canadian team, Brad Jacobs, is from my hometown of Sault Ste. Marie. So no one from the Soo would be involved in such nefarious activities, such as cheating.
It is my hope that the Canadian team will just brush this accusation aside and just sweep it under the rug, or under the ice in this case or on the ice in this case.
That’s all I have for today.
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Soon To Crack
Donnie, even by your standards, you have had a rotten week. Let me count the ways.
Even before the week began, you were really pissed off at how the video showing the Obamas, as apes, played out. Your allies went after you in public. Tim Scott, the lone black Republican senator from South Carolina, called it racist. He said it was the worst thing he ever saw coming out of the White House. You had to take it down after 12 hours. Has that, nudge nudge, wink wink unidentified staffer been fired yet?
Then the week started. You indicated that the so-called ICE operation, in Minnesota, was coming to an end and that officers there would soon be pulled out. You said that the operation was a success. In reality, Minnesota stood up to you. In reality, your thugs had to leave with their tails between their legs. What hurts even more is the fact that you will never be able to pull that stunt on another city, like Minneapolis, again. Because the citizens of America have had enough of that crap. The poor poll numbers show this.
Donald, I am sure that you know that grand juries are very favourable to the prosecution. The saying goes that you could even indict a ham sandwich. Well, you remember those six democrats that told members of the military not to follow illegal orders. You wanted them jailed for treason. The grand jury threw that out. That must’ve been very embarrassing.
Donald, one of those six Democrats, as you know, is senator Mark Kelly from Arizona. He also had retired from the military with the rank of captain. You had Pete Hegseth try to get Kelly demoted and punished. A judge prevented that saying that trying to do so was trampling Kelly’s first amendment rights.
There’s more Donald there really is. This one is really wild. You threatened to stop the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge, between Detroit and Windsor. You claim that the bridge should be owned by both US and Canada and that American labour and materials were not used in the construction of the bridge. Totally wrong. Canada paid for the entire construction of the bridge. Canada will also co-own the bridge with the state of Michigan.
Now it is coming out that you are good friends with the Republican owner of the Ambassador Bridge. Mathew Mouron is a significant republican donor. The opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge,will significantly reduce revenues for the Ambassador Bridge. So Mouron, went complaining to Howard Lutnick your commerce secretary about this. Lutnick, another person caught up in this whole Jeffrey Epstein mess, went to you and that night you texted out that you were not gonna open the Gordie Howe Bridge. Another stupid move Donnie, like really.
Now there’s talk about you reducing tariffs on aluminum and steel, because American consumers are getting hit with higher prices. So this is another thing that looks like you’re gonna be backing down on.
Donald, you’re getting less coherent and rational each day. Soon or later you’re going to crack. Actually, you are cracking already and the cracks are showing. Next week, you will probably go to town on another female reporter. You’re gonna blow Donald you’re just going to blow and it will be a sight to see.
That’s all I have for today.
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Beyond Belief
To all the women who might be reading this, and us males, for that fact, just sit down and take a deep breath and if you’re taking blood pressure medication, take it.
My chirp today was going to be about how terrible week Donald Trump has had. Hopefully I will get around to that tomorrow and maybe even the following day.
There was a Facebook post this morning that I had to fact check because I couldn’t believe this guy said this. But he did.
This is Nick Fuentes. Right wing commentator who makes Tucker Carlson look like an angelic choir boy. He is the host of a podcast called America First. He is a white nationalist misogynist. He is a supporter of Donald Trump, no surprise there. He also broke bread with Trump at Mar-a-Lago a couple years back.
This is what he said on his podcast yesterday. I will just leave this here. I just want to let you know that this will trigger you. Take care.
Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones. Second of all, we will determine which ones are acceptable after they’re all imprisoned. Then we will let them out.
You have to do it because those are our political enemies. You want to know our number — This is unironically just true. The number one political enemy in America is women. Straight up, I’m just telling you. I’m telling it like it is. People might say it’s Jews, it’s Democrats, it’s white liberals, it’s leftists, it’s the Chinese. Our number one political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned.
They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They’re the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people. You know, when you — I want you to understand something. When you’re sympathetic to poor people, you’re sympathetic to brown people because brown people are poor. OK? Not all poor people are brown, but most brown people are poor. So women are making us sympathetic to poor people, aka brown people. Women are making us sympathetic to George Floyd. Women are the reason that their fertility rate is low because they’re getting educated and they attack every man as a rapist and a pedophile and they’re henpecking and controlling all the men.
So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. And we’ll sort it out. We’ll find the good ones. They can prove themselves. Then we’ll let them go.
So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.
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Oh No!
When I heard the details of who the shooter was, my first reaction was oh no, the transgender community is going to suffer for this. I went on Facebook and the posts that I saw confirmed my fears. One post said it all.
“ The man was wearing a dress. That’s all you need to know.”
The shooter was identified as Jesse Van Rootselaar, a female, born as a male and identifying as a female since age 12. She has been known to police for a number of years. She has a history of mental health issues. Weapons were seized from her residence a few years ago, but were returned. She had a gun license that had expired back in 2024.
Right wing media in the US are having a field day on this. But the same thing is happening in Canada. Tara Armstrong, an MLA from Central. British Columbia has stated that there is an epidemic of transgender violence in the west. She adds that this epidemic will continue until society changes its view on transgender ideology.
Right wing media, again in the US, says that there has been a disproportionate amount of crimes committed by transgender persons. This is blatantly false. In fact, 0.1% of crimes have been committed by transgender persons since 2013. Just a reminder, the killer of 14 women at Ecole Polytechniqe, back in 1989, was a white male. The Sandy Hook killer, was a white male. The person who killed over 60 people, who were attending a concert, in Las Vegas, was a white male.
No matter how this plays out, transgender persons will have an extremely rough ride in the next little while. The focus should be on the victims and on the family and friends of those victims and on the entire community of Tumbler Ridge. Sadly, it won’t be.
Once the shock wears off, it will be interesting to see how the conservative party approaches this incident with regard to transgender people. Hopefully, and I sincerely mean this, they will react in a way that their right wing counterparts, south of our border, would not.
That’s all I have for today.
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Does Not Happen Here
Watching the Olympics most of the day. Turning to the news channels before hitting the hay. Turn to CBC news world and there is something about a shooting in Tumblr Ridge, BC. I don’t think much of it. Wake up this morning and I see that 10 people are dead, with the shooter taking their own life. This happened at a school. Shock.
Things like this don’t happen in Canada. The last major school shooting happened back in 1989 at a university, in Quebec, Ecole Polytechnique, where14 women were shot dead, before the shooter took his own life.
This does not happen in Canada. It just does not. We often times look down smugly, at our neighbours to the south at all the school shootings, and all the mass shootings and we go tsk, tsk. This just does not happen in Canada.
Well it did last night. The details are still very sketchy. There are 10 dead including the shooter. Two of the dead were found in a nearby residence. There are also 25 wounded. Tumblr Ridge is a community of only 2400 people. So everybody knew everybody. It will take years, if ever, for the community to recover from that. There are rumours that the shooter might’ve been female. But, for now, this is just rumors.
The details are still very sketchy. The motive is not known and may never be known. How the person accessed the weapon still has to be determined. Right now, the community and the country is in shock. Because this just does not happen here in Canada, but it did. Though I have mocked this phrase in the past because it has been used too often by politicians who don’t really care, Tumbler Ridge truly is in our thoughts and prayers.
Treasure your day, today.
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Trouble Bridge Over Water
Mark, Mr. Carney, sir, I think you broke Donnie. At the least, I think you’re really pissed him off, like bigly, like never ever seen before. You know about this new bridge that’s going over to the Detroit river between Detroit and Windsor. It will be called. the Gordie Howe Bridge, in honour of the long time, Detroit Red Wings hockey player who came from Saskatchewan. Nice symbolism.
Well, the bridge is ready to be open and Donnie is threatening not to open it. The bridge cost $6 billion to construct. Canada funded all of it. And, it will be jointly owned between Canada and Michigan.
Mark, I guess someone was talking to Donnie, probably Steven Miller and Donnie went on kind of a tweeting rampage this morning. This is kind of long, but you need to see this Mark.
“Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. They own both the Canada and the United States side and, of course, built it with virtually no U.S. content. President Barack Hussein Obama stupidly gave them a waiver so they could get around the BUY AMERICAN Act, and not use any American products, including our Steel.
Don lied there because there was a lot
of US content, including material and labor.
“Now, the Canadian Government expects me, as President of the United States, to PERMIT them to just ‘take advantage of America!’ What does the United States of America get — Absolutely NOTHING!”
Now here is the really wild part given that Donnie has no authority to do this.
“I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them, and also, importantly, Canada treats the United States with the Fairness and Respect that we deserve.”
I think Melania had a headache last night. Then again they’re probably not even the same bed or even same house, right now.
Mark, you really pissed him off with your speech in Davos and making a deal with China. You kind of pissed him off with all these other trade deals you’ve made too. He doesn’t like anyone not bending the knee to him. I’m not sure whether I should ask you to dial it down a bit or keep it going. It would be a sight to see Dotnnie‘s brain explode.
Well, you know what you’re doing Mark. You don’t need advice from me.
That’s all I have for today,
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Bad Bunny
Bad Bunny is not really my cup of tea. We had ordered pizza which we ate during the halftime show and chatted a bunch also. For me, the best part of the show was when Lady Gaga came on
That being said, nearly 130 million people watched the halftime show. 8 million people watched the puppy bowl. Kid Rock’s whatever that was drew only 4.3 million on YouTube.
Donald Trump was not at the Super Bowl. He was at a watch party. He knew that if he was at the Super Bowl, he would get the same treatment that JD Vance got at the Milan opening ceremonies. It would’ve been hard for NBC to mute that one, the boos would’ve been so loud. This was Trump‘s reaction to the Bad Bunny performance.
Donald, you are just pathetic. MAGA, all of you are also pathetic. You are more upset about a 15 minute halftime performance then you are about a president protecting paedophiles and who might be one himself. Give your heads a shake. Like really
By the way, Donald didn’t mention anything about the Kid Rock fiasco.
By the way, there was also a football game last night.
Also, by the way, Bad Bunny is an American citizen.
That’s all I have for today. 
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Questions
Some questions to ponder on Super Bowl Sunday
Viewers throughout the world heard the boos, when JD Vance and wife were pictured on the screen during the opening ceremonies of the Olympics. Viewers in the US did not. Why did NBC mute the boos? Like did they really think no one would notice? They have this thing called the Internet.
Mark Carney got voted in as liberal leader in March 2025. 160,000 people got to vote on that choice. Pierre Poilievre, in his leadership review, had 87% of voting participants, approve of his leadership. However, only 3000 people participated in the vote and they each have to pay $1000 to be able to participate. Yet his overall approval rating is sinking far behind the approval rating of Mark Carney. Why are conservative so confident behind Pierre Poilievre?
MAGA supporters like to call liberals snowflakes. Why do they need to have their own halftime show, with Kid Rock? Why are they so upset with Bad Bunny? Who are the real snowflakes here?
When will reporters start growing a pair, after Trump‘s latest attack on a female reporter, that being Kaitlyn Collins.
What snacks will you be having at the Super Bowl?
Have a great Sunday. That’s all I have.
Bird's Chirp
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….