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Do The Math?
The carbon tax increased in April 1. At the same time, rebates have increased as well.
Protests, enflamed by the rhetoric of Pierre Poilievre, have erupted throughout Canada. Justin Trudeau is claiming that critics of the carbon tax increase are ignoring the rebates. In Alberta, the quarterly rebates are $225 per quarter for a single person, $337.50 for a couple and $450 for a family. So, over the year a family would receive carbon tax rebates totalling nearly $2,000. Trudeau is further claiming that 80% of Canadians will benefit under this structure.
Canadians should do the math to determine whether they would benefit or not. Most Canadians won’t. We are in an age where facts don’t matter anymore. Given the increasingly bitter partisan divide, Canadians who support Poilievre will accept his rhetoric. The same will go for Trudeau supporters. Trudeau has even challenged premiers to come up with a better plan. None has been presented. But again this does not matter. This is our sad reality.
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Who Is The Animal?
A couple of months ago. a Senate bipartisan group cobbled together legislation. that would have been the strictest ever on illegal immigration at the Southern border. Donald Trump ordered Republicans in the House and Senate to kill it. He did not to give the Democrats a win. He wanted immigration to be a campaign issue. This is how shallow Trump is.
At a campaign stop in Grand Rapids, Michigan, he called illegals immigrants animals and inhuman. He said that he had a long conversation with the family of Ruby Garcia, a local woman, allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant. He lied. The family claimed that Trump had never talked to them.
Trump, then went to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where he doubled down on his earlier comments,
“The Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals. They’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans, they’re animals.”
Trump is taking a page directly from the Adolph Hitler handbook. Just as Hitler called Jews vermin, Trump is calling immigrants animals. Trump had also used the word vermin.
The truly frightening part is that his MAGA supporters are buying it all. They do not care about facts or whether Trump lies or tells the truth. I can attest to this in my own conversations with MAGA supporters in various social media site. Honestly, their reality is scaring the crap out of me.
Fortunately, as the campaign season continues, the polls are starting to trend against Trump. More and more rational people are starting to pay attention to what Trump is saying and are beginning to have wtf realizations.
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Just Awesome
Sourced from Washington Post website In all honesty, I have never been that big on women’s basketball. For me, on the men’s side, basketball is 4th in my list of things to watch, after football, hockey and baseball. Basketball, I will watch the Raptors (not so much this year) and will start following college basketball during tournament time. If you ask me who won the last WNBA championship, I honestly would not be able to tell you.
Well, I am starting to watch more of it now. More like one team. More like one player. That would be Caitlin Clark from the University of Iowa.
I have watched some of her tournament games and last night, in an Elite Eight game, against Louisiana State, I watched her sink nine three point shots and 41 points, in total, leading Iowa to a win.
Put it simply, she was awesome. Her three point made shots, literally blew me away. She did it all, shooting and setting up plays for her teammates. She not only had 41 points, she had 12 assists. So, Clark was involved in over 2/3 of Iowa’s points.
She has literally transformed the sport of women’s college basketball and she has filled seats. The only person that I can compare her to, that so dominated a sport and immediately drew fans to the arena and to television, is Wayne Gretzky. She is that awesome.
Her final four game against traditional power, UCONN, is this Friday night, and I will be watching.
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Trump Drops Out!
Rumours have been swirling overnight that Donald Trump is set to announce that he will no longer be running for President. Furthermore, he will be seeking plea deals in his pending trials in which he is asking for all charges to be dropped in exchange for remaining on house arrest for the rest of his life. Furthermore, he will no longer have internet or phone access.
Those close to him say that this stunning turnaround occurred while he was attending Easter Sunday services. He is supposed to have told aides, after the service,
“Here I am selling bibles at $60 a shot and I can’t even recite the Lord’s Prayer. I am so ashamed.”
This is early hours, so more details will come out.
Happy April 1st.
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The Lowest
This is an image of President Biden that was attached to the back of a pickup truck. Naturally the truck had Trump banners. So, typical MAGA. But, of course, there used to be more. Donald Trump shared this image (actually a 20 second video) on his Truth Social site. Of course he did.
This man has no boundaries. None. Of course this is causing an uproar. And, of course, if possible, Trump will sink even lower.
A Biden spokesman put it best,
This image from Donald Trump is the type of crap you post when you’re calling for a bloodbath or when you tell the Proud Boys to ‘stand back and stand by. Trump is regularly inciting political violence and it’s time people take him seriously — just ask the Capitol Police officers who were attacked protecting our democracy on January 6.”
Happy Easter.
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Black Swan Crazies
The term ‘Black Swan Event’ is used to describe a global event that has seriously damaging effects on a country’s economy. Naturally, conspiracy theorists have adopted this phrase and are freely using it regarding the bridge collapse in Baltimore.
Now in the real world, the ship lost power. Maydays were issued. The ship hit the bridge and the bridge fell down with six lives lost. There is NO evidence, NONE, that this was anything other than a tragic accident.
But that has not stopped the conspiracy theorists. Disgraced former Homeland Security head Michael Flynn issued the following tweet that has had 7.2 million hits.
This is a BLACK SWAN event. Black swans normally come out of the world of finance (not military) … There are harbor masters for every single one of these transit points in America that are in charge of assuring the safety of navigation … start there.”
There is a movie called White Lion produced by Obama. The beginning of the movie has a ship running aground The flag on the ship that hit the bridge had a white lion. Yes, Obama was behind it
Another one. The name of the bridge is the Francis Scott Key bridge. Key wrote the Star Spangled Banner. So? stay with me here, this was an attack to undermine America.
Prominent Republicans, such as MTG, are questioning whether this was an accident. The mind just boggles.
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Upset Christians
It seems than a serial adulterer and accused rapist, selling bibles to raise money to pay legal fees relating to his adultery is raising hackles in the Christian community.
First there is the product itself, as noted by one historian,
“What has caused outrage with this Bible is that it includes the Declaration of Independence, US Constitution, and even the lyrics to a Lee Greenwood song. So it’s adding to the Bible, and it’s adding specific political documents to the Bible that completely erase the separation of church and state.”
Then it is the man himself, as one Pastor appropriately states,
“It is a bankrupt Christianity that sees a demagogue co-opting our faith and even our holy scriptures for the sake of his own pursuit of power and praise him for it rather than insist that we refuse to allow our sacred faith and scriptures to become a mouthpiece for an empire,”
This is not going to end well for him regarding both the alienation of his Religious base, nor the upcoming’ ‘hush money’ trial itself.
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Irony
Attribution to Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Let me get this straight. Donald Trump is now selling bibles. The profits from these sales will go to his campaign. Funds of which he will use to pay legal fees in the ‘hush money’ trial. The trial is about payments he made to cover up him committing adultery with a porn star. This adultery happened while his wife was pregnant. Do I have this right?
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Head Will Explode
First a quick update from yesterday’s chirp. After getting blasted by their leading personalities, NBC has decided to cut Ronna McDaniel loose. Right-wing media are losing their minds. They are saying that MSNBC is simply a voice for the Democrats. Pot calling kettle black or what. That ugly episode is done and over with.
Meanwhile, in the hush money trial, Judge Merchant has issued a gag order on Trump. Trump is forbidden to make any statement on court staff, lawyers, potential jurors and witnesses involved in the trial. This includes family members as well.
“The uncontested record reflecting the Defendant’s prior extra-judicial statements establishes a sufficient risk to the administration of justice … and there exists no less restrictive means to prevent such risk.”
Trump will not be able to make any statements on witnesses such as Michael Cohen or Stormy Daniels. His head will explode. He won’t be able to hold back. He will get warned and then fined. Whether he ends up in jail for contempt is a coin flip. No matter what, Trump will be seething the entire length of the trial. Bring popcorn.
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A Mess
Attribution to Super Festivals
Pete Rose was a Major League Baseball (MLB) player and manager He won a number of awards while he played. He has statistics worthy of putting him in the Hall of Fame. However, even though his playing days are long gone, he is not yet, nor likely never will be in the Hall of Fame. The offense he committed was gambling on baseball games, while he was in the sport. As of now, he is permanently ineligible to entry into the Hall of Fame.
Shoehei Otani is a 29 year old baseball player, who just signed a 10 year contract with the Los Angelas Dodgers, for a staggering $700 million. He is the new Babe Ruth of baseball. He played in Japan for a number of years, winning the Most Valuable Player (MVP) five times. He came to America and played for the Anaheim Anels for a few years, winning the American League MVR award, twice. What makes him special is that he excels in both pitching and hitting, at a Hall of Fame level, in both skills.
Otani uses an interpreter. There currently is a scandal, in which the interpreter was fired. The supposed reason is that there is $4.5 million missing from Otani’s account. The scandal is that, supposedly, Otani was aware of the $4.5 million leaving his account. Furthermore, Otani had instructed the interpreter to use that money for gambling on baseball games.
This is still in the early stages of being investigated. Otani has denied ever gambling on baseball games. I am sure that all sides involved, excluding the fired interpreter, perhaps, will be on the side of Otani’s denial. If the scandal is true, it will send shockwaves and could end up with Otani banned from Major League Baseball.
Bird's Chirps
So I don't have to put it on Facebook anymore….