What would Moses do?

There's a story on view at the Jpost about Bibi putting pressure on his White House puppet to cough up a few more endorsements of The Greatest Leader Since Moses before Israelis go to the polls two days hence. Gives you a clear sense of how off-the-rails the Israeli polity has gone. It's gotta be a vanishingly small club of world leaders who imagine a Mafia Don endorsement at this moment in time would boost their fortunes!

And all too obviously, Trump is increasingly reluctant to provide such endorsements. Netanyahu's plunge into genocidal mayhem post-7.10  hasn't been as popular in America as Donald's AIPAC handlers had assumed, and he's got his own election storm-clouds gathering. Americans can't get honest news out of Israel from Western media, but al Jazeera and other non-Western platforms have been live-streaming Israel's industrial-scale mass-murder of women  and children for three years now, and to their credit, most Americans don't approve. 

The fact such an endorsement matters to Bibi speaks volumes. In the mind of The Greatest Leader Since Moses, a Trump endorsement would, even at this late hour, potentially move the needle enough to keep him in power and out of jail.

Ironically, it could potentially do the opposite for Trump!

As for what Moses would do, that's a distraction. It could be argued Bibi is not only greatest since, but GREATEST of ALL TIME! And here's why Moses 2.0 beats the pants off the original iteration. PM Netanyahu has devoted his entire career to fulfilling God's command, issued thousands of years ago, to kill all of Israel's enemies, and their children, and their dogs, and their sheep... there's more, but you probably see the drift. Moses 1.0 on the other hand was pretty loosey-goosey with God's commands even during his own lifetime, let alone thousands of years up the road.

There ya go Donnie; I figure it would please the Lord most if you cranked out a barrage of Truths over the next coupla days endorsing the war criminal, thereby ensuring the political end of you both!

Elon Musk explains never-ending Ukraine War boondoggle

Apparently the think tank here at Falling Downs is not alone in noticing the eternal feedback loop that has taken hold in Zelly's prosecution of his "defence" of Ukraine. For years now we've gone again and again through the near-defeat of the aggressor, and but for the lack of just a few crucial weapons and a few even more crucial tens or hundreds of billions of euros or USDs, we can finally free the Russian people from the evil dictator Bad Vlad, but also restore freedom and sovereignty to Ukraine!

Elon took note of this phenomenon in a post on X yesterday, in which he took the critique to the next level. According to him, this cycle keeps repeating because the folks approving ever more billions, and giving away NATO's armory, personally benefit from this absolute waste of taxpayer dollars. Of course they do! Not many pols in the liberal democracies are willing to risk donations from the war profiteers by calling out this massive criminal waste of euros, USDs, and Ukrainian lives.

Thanks for that insight, Elon! Let's take it to the logical next level. For the ruling junta in Kyiv, Russia's "unprovoked, illegal, full-scale invasion" is the gift that keeps on giving! How else do you imagine the Kyiv Bentley dealership clawed its way to the top of the European Bentley sales charts... from dead last just five years ago!

Carney invites Russia, Iran, and North Korea to join coalition of like-minded nations to overthrow Trump regime

In a stunning reversal of policy, the Canadian PM has offered yesterday's enemies a seat at the table as he builds a coalition to restore the freedoms and human rights of the American people. Clearly Trump has become a deranged madman obsessed with restoring the former glory of a once-serious power. 

He has cowed allies and enemies alike into submission. Everybody except Canada, which is why it's up to the Globalist Banksters favorite banker to set things right, and clearly, time is of the essence. After starting and losing two wars at once, Trump has become so delusional that he's more convinced by the day he actually won them. He is flooding the streets of American cities with armed thugs who are hunting down Trump opponents. He is murdering his own people!

We have rarely seen such a clear-cut case for the application of R2P, the Responsibility to Protect doctrine Canada was instrumental in getting through the UN. The leadership burden therefore falls to us.

We haven't been called to do much punching-above-our-weight since the golden age of Big Steve, but Canada stands ready. Leadership is what we do.  We're ready to take back our rightful role at the top o' the democratic order!

Former ambassador to Russia briefs CBC on grim human rights situation under Putin

 It's grim alright. Former ambassador Sarah Taylor painted a bleak picture... not for herself, but for the 140 million Russians who don't have the freedom to escape Bad Vlad's dystopian shithole.

Sarah shared some profound insights that brought into focus the scale of Putin's relentless disinformation war. It is truly mind-boggling! For example, for over fifty years the communist dictator Nikita Khrushchev had a completely bogus rep as a reformer, when in reality he was one of the worst they ever had till Putin came along. All that hogwash about Nikita K freeing millions of political prisoners from the Siberian Gulag? Lies lies lies!!!

But the lying didn't really take off till Putin seized the Kremlin  via an obviously fraudulent "democratic" election featuring, literally, some two dozen alleged political parties! Ya, as if! And the disinformation war against the West went completely bonkers after Alexei Navalny returned from his all-expenses-paid education at Yale and began asking questions about where Bad Vlad had squirreled away the billions, nay, tens of billions... double nay nay, HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS Putin has pilfered from his longsuffering people.

At great risk to her personal safety, Taylor made the courageous decision, along with the ambassadors from France, UK, Germany, and USA, to attend Navalny's funeral. There, her heart was almost broken by the sight of "many" thousands of Muscovites who defied Putin with their presence. Although CBC didn't use the phrase "tens of thousands" in their reporting at the time, she ventured that in her estimation it might very well have been possible!

Her interview with Matt Galloway was a real eye-opener, and another job well done by our public broadcaster. Bravo Matt and Sarah!

Meanwhile our PM was over in Ankara to sign trade and defence deals with like-minded NATO ally  Turkiye. It's a lot like Canada, except for a couple of minor things... for example, while they've got twice our overall population, they've got 10x the prison population! And there is an argument to be made our erstwhile NATO ally holds more political prisoners than Russia! The Sultan's human rights bona fides may be a little over-ripe, but any port will do in this storm of authoritarian terror launched by Putin and his minions in Tehran and North Korea!

But for the Grace of God...

The Grace of God. We don't put much stock in the Grace of God in the modern era.

Got a call last night from my old pal Kipling. But for the Grace of God, Kipling woulda been a gonner twenty times over long before now. And he knows it. That's the thing about old guys who are shocked and confused when they suddenly find themselves grappling with the fact they actually made it to old age! 

That truly is a WTF moment. I went into a Service Ontario office yesterday and came out a half hour later with a VIP handicapped parking permit. WTF? How did that happen? First place I went to try it out was Shoppers Drug Mart, and wouldn't you know, all the handicapped spots were taken!

That's obviously something to get pissy about if you're looking for a handicapped parking space, but since I'm new to gimp-world, I'll just hang back and reserve judgement. But for the Grace of God, I may have very well dropped dead in some random parking lot long before I snagged that VIP parking permit!

In praise of elderly Jewish gentlemen who happen to have law degrees

We're delving into the archives here, and I've no idea if Uncle Sid remains among the living, but thirteen years ago he made enough of an impression that I wrote about him.

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First of all, Sid ain't my uncle.

I don't think, technically speaking, he's even an "uncle" to the Farm Manager. Maybe a second cousin once removed or something.

Anyway, I ran into Sid at the family get-together about a month back.

Usually I only run into Sid at family funerals.

So I grabbed Sid's hand for a good old farm-style handshake, "hey good to see ya Sid... I only see you at funerals!"

I should mention that Sid is 87 years old. Still goes to his office at his law practice every day. Still got all his marbles, and they're all rolling in the right direction.

I think he does real estate law mostly. You can probably do that till you're 150. After all, what can go wrong? The title searchers do the title search. The lien checkers check for liens. The legal secretaries and assorted unpaid interns do the rest.

When all those folks have done all your work, you give it the stamp of approval and off you go!

Now that's just a general rant about real estate lawyers. I don't mean for a moment to suggest that's how Sid rolls.

But Sid is one savvy dude. When I mentioned about only seeing him at family funerals he rejoinders, without a moment of hesitation, "ya I know! Everybody I know is dead!"

What a great guy to have a beer with!

Here's to ya, Sid!

How to tell when you're busting the speed limit on the Alzheimer Highway

Not that I would, personally, know anything about that, but I've heard through the grapevine one of the sure-fire symptoms is when you start doing shit you've never been known to do before. Like, just to pick a hypothetical example out of the ether,  shopping for high-end footwear.

 I gotta admit I've been somewhat infatuated with the Dayton 64 brand of late, and I'll tell you why. Thanks to a recent Globe feature on bespoke brands unique to Canada, I learned that Dayton 64s are called that because the IWA Canadian HQ was at 64 Dayton Avenue in Vancouver!

And here's why this matters to the pot-addled hillbilly. For a period of several months, I think four max, maybe four and a half, I was the shop steward at an International Woodworkers of America local in Victoria BC. As it happened, none of the older guys wanted the job, so the punk from Ontario got it by default. The punk from Ontario was soon enough embroiled in crises on all sides that had him scurry home to Ma & Pa's basement, but to this day I regard those few months with nostalgia and regret...

Not sure what that's worth... you get to a certain age and damned near everything you see in the rear-view is framed in nostalgia and regret!

And I'm not a complete stranger to Canadian-made high-end footwear. I've had a pair of blue suede Hartts forever.  I got 'em in a thrift shop for twenty bucks. There was another high-end brand also from New Brunswick that I think is still around, but their shoes are built in England now. 

But back to the Alzheimer Highway. Right now I'm looking at a vintage pair of Daytons, a wee bit scuffed up, on offer at five hundred bucks. Ya, that's three times what I've ever paid for footwear before, but hot damn...  wait a minute! That sharp-looking logger's boot may look good but it don't have so much as a steel toe! WTF? 

I couldna even wore those puppies into the IWA shop where I was the shop steward! They mighta made real boots once upon a time, but they're strictly Japan / China tourist fare today. 

See!  A guy who can figure that out still has a lot of runway left on that highway!