Here's another fun fact about aging nobody ever mentioned

Yup, the fun never ends once you start cashing in on those senior's discounts. To be sure, there are benefits... saving 10% on geezer needs every Thursday at Shoppers Drug Mart is a perfect example. They kick in the senior's discount at age 55, so I've even got the Farm Manager shopping there. On the other hand, the older you get, the harder it is to live in denial. Quite aside from all sorts of nasty shit sneaking up on you after a lifetime of imagining you'll be eighteen forever, for which Alice Cooper should finally take at least a slight smidgeon of responsibility, you inevitably succumb to the old-age markers that plague even those insufferable moralizers and virtue-signalers who never smoked or drank or snorted anything, but were equally shocked when they weren't waking up with a stiffy every morning! Ya, shit happens, and the shit don't ever really get much happier. Another symptom nobody ever mentioned is I'm making way more drool now than ever before. In fact, a certified dental hygenist mentioned that just last week. Not that I needed a professional opinion. This morning I was doing a few laps at the dog park with Bruno. A dog park regular pulls in with his absolutely gorgeous black-and-tan mastif. His girl has cropped ears and a full tail. My boy has a cropped tail and full flopply ears. In true mastif fashion, they completely ignore one another, as well as every other dog and human other than their masters. I'm stopping to give that pretty girl a rub, and, wouldn't you know it, I slobber all over her. Well, at least it didn't happen at the counter in the post office or the check-out at the liquor store! Her dad, a seasoned mastif owner, took it in stride, as well he should - I'd guess he's got a good ten years on me. As I'm apologizing to the dog he says, don't worry about it, she'll drool back on you soon enough. Then we did a lap comparing notes on how much mastif drool had damaged our dog transporters. Oh ya, these dogs just wreck your car! He kinda had a point. My ten year old Toyota has congealed Bruno slobber caked on the outside of the back doors, and the back seat is pretty much rotted out. On the other hand, his new 600 horsepower Audi R8 didn't show any sign at all of mastif slobber on the back doors, so probably he was just humouring me. And that's a happy thing. Ya, it's bullshit, but it's kind, life-affirming bullshit! As I'm barreling down the home stretch of life's all-too-short highway, that's the kind I'm looking for. That's why I'm 100% against a single further taxpayer penny going to the CBC!

Another mindfulness moment from the stoop

As regular readers will be aware, I've been trying to make a bit of a course correction re my news-junkie habit. To that end, I've been working hard at tamping down laptop hours and ramping up stoop time. I would say I've been having some success over the past little while, but now that the UNGA is on... ay yai yai... that's getting really really tough! I took a break from my ruminations on the stoop yesterday to watch the Leader of the Free World wax wise on the world stage for an hour and 47 minutes, and realized immediately that wasn't helping my mental health. So back to the stoop! A week ago there were two hummingbirds fighting over end-of-season dregs at the bottom of the feeder. One would come in from one of the pines around the yard and before it got it's beak in the feeder the second would zoom in and bunt it out of the way. Then they'd reverse roles and do it all over again. This literally went on all day. That was the 15th. Next morning I mixed a fresh batch of feeder food for them, so they wouldn't have to fight over it. I haven't seen a hummingbird since. Obviously the order came through from Hummingbird Central Command that it's time to head for Costa Rica, so I guess I can put the feeder away. Mind you, that would stress out some of the other living creatures who frequent the hummingbird feeder, mainly wasps and ants. Not hard to understand how wasps get there - they fly in just like the hummingbirds do. The ants are a different story. The feeder hangs from a shepherds hook a good four feet off the ground . First, the ants have to smell that stuff when it's roughly ten thousand body-lengths away. That's like me being able to smell what somebody's cooking for dinner twenty miles away. If that isn't awesome enough, at least some of them always manage to actually find their way into the feeder! Water doesn't leak out but ants can get in? Not all of them; there's heavy two-way traffic all the way up and down that shepherds hook, and I must say I woulda been way better off watching that for an hour and 47 minutes. It's that time of year. The Canada geese are doing their practice flights. Those typically start in late August in these parts, and generally involve heavy-metal-decibel-level honking, and flight formations that look like pretty much every letter of the alphabet except the "V" they're aiming for. But by now they're flying by in exquisite V-shaped silence. It's a beautiful thing to see. This evening, as the sun was fading, a lone straggler was passing by honking plaintively. Must have been napping while the rest of the crew flapped off. Every other wingbeat was accompanied by a plaintive honk. I felt sad for it. Then, as its sad honks were growing fainter, I suddenly heard response honks coming from the marsh across the way. The very tone of Lone Straggler's voice changed. I could hear the joy! That Canada goose had found her people!

Bill Ackman strikes again

Just in case you don't remember, Bill is the US billionaire hedgie who swept into Canada to take control of the Canadian Pacific Railway. A few years later he swept out after trousering (tip of the cap to Conrad Black, because before I found "trousering" in one of his screeds I would have said "pocketing") multiple billions as a reward for making the iconic Canadian railroad lean and efficient. He accomplished that by making trains longer and running them faster with fewer crew. During his tenure they sold off 5,000 locomotives and 10,000 units of rolling stock and made at least 10,000 workers redundant. His gutting of CP Rail was universally applauded across mainstream Canadian media. Aside from being a billionaire greedbag, Ackman is also a staunch Zionist. When I say "staunch" I'm talking about the absolutely worst excesses of Jewish Supremacy imaginable. He's been a major funder of anti-Muslim hate groups for decades. His latest stunt was to use his massive wealth to pressure KPMG, one of Western Civ's top accounting firms, to fire a long-time employee because she'd been set up in a anti-semitism sting. It's worth looking up that woman's you-tube video. Apparently enough people have done exactly that, and concluded what I concluded when I was writing about CP Rail years ago; that Bill Ackman is utterly lacking any priciples or integrity whatsoever, and that other than his own bank balance and the ultimate triumph of Israel over America, and eventually the world, he lives an utterly care-free life! And while we all deserve carefree lives, if I were Bill, I'd have some concerns... he's pissed off way more people than Brian Thompson ever did!

Did Grok write Trump's UN speech?

It's hard to believe, but even a world-class liar like Donny J couldn't possibly spew an hour and 47 minutes of incoherent slop by making it all up himself. In an hour 47 he made, by my count, a total of two statements that were in at least some vague proximity to what most folks might consider actual facts. The first is he killed Soleimani. The second, made at least 3 dozen times, is "the world has never seen anything like it." While that's certainly true enough, I don't think his audience at the UN General Assembly heard it the way he intends. The entire world is in awe of America's military brilliance? That's one of many dozens of AI halucinations throughout the speech, and what's left is a laundry list of Israeli talking points. And that bit about we gotta stop calling AI "artificial" because it damages the self-esteem of your AI agent or some such idiocy. Henceforth it shall be known as Super Intelligence, because I'm a super-high IQ stable genius and I said so. Alrighty dude... you're right about one thing... the world truly has never seen anything like it.

Carney is transforming Canada into a Globalist Banksters' Paradise

Think about it. Right out of the blocks Carney committed Canada to hundreds of billions in military spending, based entirely on the whims of the very same Donald J Trump we allegedly have our elbows up against. That most of this military kit will be sourced from US companies isn't something Canadian media wants to discuss. The bleak track records of US military tech in theatre has demonstrated to the world that what we're committing to buying is extravagantly overpriced and vastly inferior to what the "adversaries" have on offer. But nevermind all that! Carney is ramping up war prep because we must prepare for war with Russia. According to all the top European leaders, like France Prez Micron, we gotta be ready to take on Putin before 2030. Carney made time for Micron today. Carney enjoys approval ratings in the 70% range, the highest approval ratings in Canadian history! Micron's approval ratings are around 14% and are headed for the single digits before the next election. So what possible motivation might there be for Mark Carney to ballyhoo alliances with obvious dead-enders like the President of France? Cue the usual horseshit about shared values blah blah blah. Yup, we certainly share values! Both France and Canada are 100% aboard for the genocidal apartheid state's right to defend itself via the mass murder of women and children. What the vast purchase of US military kit reveals is that the Carney regime has throttled social spending for at least the next fifty years. All those social support networks across Canada that have been starved of proper funding for decades will be cut loose altogether. Between US fighter jets and German submarines we simply can't afford extravagant perks like universal health care and public education. That's why globalist greedbags flocked to Carney's Canadian Investment Summit last week.

What's Mark Carney really up to ?

Canada's official government propaganda organ, the CBC, has been bemoaning the fact that the Liberal PM has stolen the lunch and tommorrow's lunch money from hapless doofuss Pierre Poilievre. Wasn't hard to see that coming. If you recall, as recently as the autumn '23 Liberal Party policy convention the Libs under PM Fluffy brought in Hillary Clinton for a pep talk! Even though, politically, she was a serial loser, she still commanded some of the stiffest speaker fees on the Western Civ pundit circuit. That was the context when PP briefly captivated the public. Well, fast forward to now. Fluffy be gone and there's a new sheriff in town. Unlike PM Fluffy and the career politician Poilievre, It's inconcievable Hillary will snag any paid gigs in any Lib party confab going forward! The new sheriff has destroyed Poilievre's PC party by stealing its ideas and its lunch money. Why would any corporate bigshot give to the PCs when Carney's already doing a bang-up job carrying the ball for them? And if that isn't enough bullshit and fakery, let's not lose sight of the fact our Carney regime is all in for tightening the screws on Putin and tightening our bonds with the Baltic micro-states. Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia combined don't have the population of the GTA, and it's been shrinking every year for decades, but for reasons never explained to Canadians, we gotta defend them from Putin? According to my read of the Carney regime, the answer to Trump's dictats, no matter how ludicrous, is inevitably "YES SIR!" Our media work hard to portray our subservience as something else, and it seems a large swathe of the public still want to believe Canada is somehow in the vanguard of saving freedom and democracy.

Why Donald Trump is afraid to use nuclear weapons

There's a lot of speculation floating around that America's prospects in the wars it is losing are so grim that Trump is contemplating the use of America's nuclear arsenal, the second most potent nuclear arsenal in the world after Russia's. There's your first clue that Mafia Don ain't going anywhere near nukes. When you're number two in the world 'o nukes it means you're dead, and if there's one thing Donald J Trump values above all else it's Donald J Trump! So ixnay on nuclear war, but that kinda leaves us at a loss. "At a loss" rather obscures the scale of losses that lie ahead. The IRGC that Trump has annihilated time and again are well on their way to pushing the most fearsome military in history out of the Gulf forever. That of course means the end of the apartheid genocidal state that's been keeping the region aflame since 1948. So there you have it; the survival of the human race may boil down to Donny J chickening out on nuclear war because he's afraid to die! All things considered, I'd call that a decent outcome!