Pot-addled hillbilly goes global

Back in March I noted in a post that the blog had passed 3 million views, and it had taken 15 years to get there. Six months later, it's racked up another 3 million. Not bad numbers for a blog with three followers and a warning for readers with every post! Somebody suggested maybe that's why people read it. If it's worth censoring, maybe it's worth reading! Anyway, pretty sure two million views per month ain't anywhere near Lambo country, and besides, I'd have to get onside with those community standards to monetize, which prospect holds no appeal for me. The pot-addled hillbilly has definitely gone global though. Check out the top ten audiences over these six months, ranked in order: USA, Brazil, Singapore, France, Bangladesh, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, and "other." That last category makes up over half (1.64 million, to be precise). The pot-addled hillbilly is everywhere!

France in flames as Micron determined to go out in blaze o' glory

Spent some time watching live video feeds from various French cities this afternoon. The headlines proclaiming the unrest is just "student riots" are highly misleading. Sure, there were scenes of riot police clubbing kids who looked barely in their teens, but big picture, you had a wide swathe of unions and civil society orgs and fringe political outfits and just about every other constituency in France not part of Little Napoleon's 14% approval rating. The reporting at CBC avoided any mention of the real reasons for the unrest; severe cutbacks to social spending in favour of a vastly increased military budget and the promise of perpetual financial propping-up of rump Ukraine. There's a reason for that. The top nabobs at our official propaganda network are all too well aware that's exactly the course we're on; France, Germany, and numerous other NATO-EU states will no doubt see street riots before we do. There is no question we're looking at the same fate. The Carney regime has embarked on a clear program of crippling social spending by committing at least a trillion dollars to military spending over the next fifty years. PM Carney's got polling approval numbers never before seen in Canada. African dictators are in awe! He has a solid plan. We'll pay down our debt by selling our critical infrastructure to US hedge funds! Most of those African dudes did that long ago, but no worries... elbows up! But back to France. I can't see how Li'l Napoleon is gonna get the toothpaste back in the tube at this point. How long are the cops gonna attack retired firefighters protesting their shrinking pensions before they realize they should be pounding out the politicians instead!

Cost of Quebec City - Windsor high-speed rail corridor has already doubled, years before construction can even begin

The original estimates, cooked up by the Liberal Party in 2024, clocked in at 60 billion CAD. The revised estimate, released today by the Parliamentary Budget Office, doubles that number! And remember, it's the earliest of early days, and opposition to this project hasn't begun to coalesce. Frankly, like most of Carney's pipe(line) dreams, they make for splashy announcements, but most of this stuff will never see the light of day. They do, however, serve to reinforce the illusion that all these fab projects somehow represent our stand against The Ugliest American of all time. You know, the guy who demanded we more than triple our "defence" spending from 1.4% of GDP to 5%! Yup, that's the guy we're defying with a trillion in deficit spending for military and another T for infrastructure. PM Carney has put our country on the same path to war our NATO allies are speeding down. Germany, France, and UK have all announced spending cuts to social programs to facilitate massive boosts to military spending. These NATO allies are people our useless legacy media claim Carney wants to forge an anti-Trump alliance with. Ya, I don't know how retarded you'd have to be to swallow that shit. An anti-Trump alliance with a bunch of impotent clowns known to refer to Mafia Don as "Daddy?"

No way can Carney get anywhere near his infrastructure dreams without destroying Indigenous rights

As we all know, PM Carney has been hitting us hard with infrastructure announcements one after another. Could be 50 billions for a port on Monday, 30 billions for a pipeline here or there on Tuesday, a new multi-billion investment announced every day of the week... so far so good! Nothing wrong with making announcents! In fact, if it wasn't for endless announcements, it's hard to see our ruling class get much of anything accomplished, so at least Mark is giving me hope. After weeks of boffo front-page announcements, Carney saved the best for last. At the weekend he announces the cherry-on-top! In order to help his wish list achieve reality, he will impose a 12 month limit on the approval and permitting process for everything on his wish list! Had to do a double-take and then another one. Oh... Mark, Mark, Mark... I guess when you've spent your entire life serving the Epstein class, you might be a little out of touch. Farmers in Ontario are already raising hell over the super-duper $60 billion high-speed-rail line to Windsor. There are thousands of scientists and engineers whose entire livelihoods are based on ensuring development conforms to our environmental, safety, and human rights standards. Quite aside from that professional community, tree-huggers of all stripes will be up in arms over the abrogation of a regulatory regime they've been fighting for for generations. And PM Carney seems blissfully ignorant of the evolution of Indigenous rights in the modern era. Our First Nations enjoy de facto veto power over anything across, over, under or nearby their treaty lands or any lands that remain in dispute. Here's the reality, Mr Prime Minister. That pretty much puts the kybosh on most of your wish list for the next fifty years.

Listening to Mark Carney you'd almost think LNG Canada is a Canadian company

Which it is not, but this foreign entity gets many hundreds of millions in taxpayer money sent its way. And Mark sounded right next to euphoric when he was enthusing about what a great day this is for Canada, that this foreign company is doubling its capacity to ship Canadian resources out of the country. Frankly, this strikes me as the complete opposite of the "firming up our sovereignty" claptrap the national propaganda network has been pushing. Don't they have journalists anymore? I mean old-school sorts who used to ask questions, unlike the current generation of journos, with post-grad degrees from Carleton or the rebranded Ryerson, whose career prospects are limited to passing along press releases from all the companies and government agencies and NGOs they should be asking hard questions of. Anyway, Carney's polling numbers are the highest in Canadian polling history, so I guess the general public is all aboard for selling off our infrastructure and our resources to foreign investors. What I can't figure out is how anybody with an IQ of any kind would see that as strengthening our sovereignty? At the end of the day, the complete lack of critical thinking skills so obvious in the content of today's media platforms has to be laid at the feet of the journalism schools.

Me and Stu

I met Stu in what I think was my second year teaching. He was, if I recall, in my grade ten welding class, which consisted mostly of farm boys, juvenile delinquents, and a single female student who happened to be rebuilding an antique tractor, by far the most ambitious project anybody had going on that year. We're up Bruce County way, which is perhaps the Appalachia of Ontario. Our high school was built in the mid-fifties - and had a rifle range built into its lower level! Pretty sure they're not building them like that anymore! Maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea though... far as I'm aware, there's never been a school shooting in a school with a rifle range. Perhaps it has a similar deterent effect as Archie Bunker's brilliant idea to end airline hijackings by handing every passenger a handgun as they're boarding. But back to Stu. He was an affable, fun-loving lad, who was looking for an easy credit. Kids like that can easily become management problems if you don't stay ahead of them. My rule of thumb; if you show up 50% of the time, do at least 50% of the work, and don't piss me off too often, you've got a solid 50% on your report card. Your credit is in the bag! Stu liked that deal so much he actually went above and beyond; near perfect attendance, and while never a font of raw ambition, actually got enough stuff done and ended the year as a solid B student. One thing that puzzled me about Stu was why everybody called him Stu, when on my paperwork he was only and always "Roger." One day I asked him. Oh, Roger is my name. It is? So why are we calling you Stu? Stu laughs, "it's short for Stupid. Everybody's been calling me that since kindergarden!" Well, that presented a conundrum. Poor Roger has suffered a lifetime of bullying, and here I am using that abusive nick-name just like his tormentors. Should I start calling him Roger? Should I make a rule that henceforth we'll all call him Roger? Nah... the kid I knew was lazy, smart, and anything but tormented, so I concluded we'd all leave well enough alone. Fast foward a few years. I've moved schools and haven't seen Stu since. One day I'm driving through town and stop for lunch and a pint at Rob's Sports Bar, and if I don't run into my former student! He graduated and has been living down Windsor way. He had family down there, and one of his uncles helped him get into the hiring hall of the painter's union, where he was earning more than his former teacher. But it wasn't all fun and games and big paycheques. Back in 2000 there was an industrial accident at the Ambassador Bridge between Windsor and Detroit. A painting crew working underneath the bridge suffered a scaffold failure. Three of them fell 90 metres into the Detroit River, where they were quickly scooped up by the US Coast Guard. Five were left dangling from the bridge in their safety harnesses. According to the Globe & Mail's reporting, two of those were pulled up promptly, while the other three were left dangling "somewhat longer." Stu was one of those. According to him, somewhat longer stetched to at least six hours. Holy moly! That coulda been bad! Stu is lucky to be alive! I offer him some commiseration. "Geez man, that musta been real scary... I woulda shit my pants hanging from that bridge for six hours!" Nah... "that fucking harness was so tight I couldna shit my pants if I'd wanted to."

Upper class wanker Jacob Rees-Mogg declares British youth should die for Ukraine

Yup. Sign up and die to save freedom and democracy! This privileged jerk-off is totally 100% serious when he says we absolutely gotta save Western Civ by crushing our authoritarian adversaries. You can bet your bottom shekel this warmongering turd will never volunteer himself or any family members for this sacred mission to save freedom and democracy! We're so far beyond satire, parody, or any possible path whatsoever to making sense of the insanity being pushed on us. I've seen enough videos of how they recruit fresh troops in Ukraine to know that's not what freedom and democracy should look like! Our legacy media, the CBC and the Globe, have pushed a completely bullshit narrative since the collapse of USSR. NATO had to expand after promising not to and then had to expand again and again, because, well, freedom and democracy! And here we are! Today we're promising hundreds of billions in spending for bombs and bullets so we can preserve freedom and democracy in Ukraine? It's a bad wind a-blowin' and I hope we snap out of our stupor before it's too late.