Category: Politics
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Incendiary Ball of Hate
During and after the 2020 election campaign, Donald Trump had two choices, either cool the temperature down or raise the fires to burning hate levels. We know which way he went. Here are just a few examples. During the George Floyd aftermath, where he could have calmed the country down, he just heightened racial tensions.…
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A Good Saturday Morning
Today, May 7, 2022, is a good day for Edmonton Oiler fans. After losing the first game of the 7 game series to the Los Angelas Kings, the Oil have won big the last 2 games, having potted 14 goals ,or, 2 converted touchdowns, if you will. Oiler fans have endured a lot of pain…
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Not Easy Being Green – WEELLLLL
There has been serious resistance, in the past, to the push for a more eco-friendly environment. In our continent, the resistance movement has been led by, of course, Big Oil and by the poltical right. Donald Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord during his one and hopefully only term as president. The US…
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Commonality
A number of bands musicians have one thing in common. They were all pissed off that Donald Trump used their songs. Some of them reacted in different ways, with the “Boss” Bruce Springsteen having the best reaction. Trump used his “Born in the USA” song, at his rallies, in 2016. What Springsteen did was openly…
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Country First?
“Country First” was the campaign slogan that John McCain used in his 2008 presidential campaign. Kevin McCarthy had the chance to put his country first, following the January 6 riot. Instead he put his ambitions for house speaker first. McCarthy, immerdiately following the riot, was pissed at Trump. He wanted Trump gone. He considered the…
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Fuddle Duddle
If you are not Canadian, you have no idea what the above wording means. If you are Canadian, you know. Back in 1971, during a tension filled session in parliament, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was accused of mouthing the words “f#$k off”. Caused a bit of a scandal at the time. After the session he…
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Basket of Deplorables
During a campaign fundraiser in September 2016, Hillary Clinton said “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables”. She used the term deplorables a few times during her campaign. Republicans and Trump supporters seized on it. It could have cost Clinton a number of votes and added a…
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Don’t Believe What You See
Donald Trump, on one of his stump speeches said, and I am paraphrasing “Don’t believe what you are seeing because it is not really happrning”. I have been listening to a number of January 6 related audiobooks by Bob Woodward, Jon Karl, Robert Costa, etc. Currently, just started an audiobook entitled “This Will Not Pass”.…
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Supreme Court Draft Opinion
A controversial draft opinion of the US Supreme Court was very recently leaked. The fact that it was leaked is controversial, in itself, and the leak will be investigated. The content of the opinion will radically affect the 1973 Roe vs Wade decision. In its simplest form, under Roe vs Wade, a woman had a…
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Rolling Thunder
Rolling Thunder rolled into Ottawa over the last weekend of April. Approximately 500 mototcycle riders, including a mixture of military veterans and Freedom Convoy leftovers from the February occupation. One of the cited reasons for the gathering was to “reclaim the National War Memorial”. The “group of veterans” were upset about the fact that a…