Pot-addled hillbilly knows more about NK war than Canada's Foreign Minister

 Our FM Champagne has stepped up and called out the wily Erdogan.

Stop messing around in Nagorno-Karabakh, or else!

Sure.

First of all, Erdogan isn't just messing around. He's the prime mover.

Secondly, and here's where it's beyond obvious that our humble little democratic corner of the British Empire has faded into complete irrelevance, Erdogan does not in a million years have to give a shit what our FM has to say about the matter.

At this very moment, Erdogan is giving the entire world the finger. What Canada might think or not think isn't even on his radar. If even the Pompeo-Trump combine can't move Erdogan, anything our FM Champagne says means less than nothing.

The only way to end racism

We're hard-wired for racism.

By "we," I mean all of us; black, white, brown, Asian, whatever.

And it's not just us. It's everywhere up and down the evolutionary chain. We are hard-wired to reject those who are "different." 

Because, if there's a threat to the tribe, the flock, the herd... it's gonna come from the ones that are not like the rest.

That's why, when you introduce an outsider chicken to an established flock, they will peck it to death.

Luckily, humans are, at least potentially, smarter than chickens.

I've noticed in my own extended clan, over the last fifty years or so, some evidence that we are indeed smarter than chickens.

We washed up on these shores from eastern Europe, beginning after the WWI. The pioneers mostly settled in New York and New Jersey. By today's standards, all of them were white.

There followed a second wave after the WWII, oddly enough. Most of the second wave ended up in Canada, largely because they were war-sick, and figured their kids would be less likely to be cannon fodder if they grew up in Ontario, rather than in New York or New Jersey. 

Good call!

All of them were white too.

Fast forward to a family get-together sixty years later. Along the way, various family members dilly-dallied with folks quite outside our tribe. I think cousin Thomas was the pioneer in that aspect, having hooked up with a black woman way back in the... seventies?

By now, the family picnic pretty much looks like a mini UN, and the amazing thing is, we're all family!

That's how we're gonna beat racism. You can have all the government blue panels and white papers you want, but at the end of the day, the only way to beat racism is to enlarge the tribe. White gals gotta drop more brown babies. Brown gals gotta drop more white babies, and so on and so forth.

Holy shit, I see a Nobel Peace Prize in these pearls of wisdom...

Alarm bells grow louder as runaway covid train barrels down on Thanksgiving in Ontario

 After reporting the bizarre coincidence of having test numbers and case numbers both spike on the exact same day (see previous post), the CBC wasn't done with scaring the crap out of us.

Here's the "runaway train" headline.

And here's the growing alarm bells.

That's at least the third fear-mongering covid story on CBC news today. You don't think they're deliberately trying to spread fear, do you?

Neither of these stories are news, they are entirely speculative. The actual information they contain could readily be delivered without the sensationalism of alarm bells and runaway trains.

It is possible that those who come up with the scary headlines intend them to have a cautionary effect. Perhaps people will be more careful after reading them.

Perhaps, but I think it's more likely that the fear-mongering is intended to keep the populace frightened, and therefore more pliable than they otherwise might be. 

"Ontario reports record-high Covid-19 cases, also sets testing record"

No shit!

That's a headline on view at CBC News this morning.

Who can even imagine such a thing? You do a record number of tests and find a record number of cases?

Unbelievable!

Shocking!

Check out this quote:

The testing record comes as the province pushes towards its goal of processing 50,000 tests daily by the middle of October, and more than 75,000 per day by mid-November.

Let me go out on a limb here and make a prediction. I'm no expert, but I have a hunch, a "gut feeling" as it were, that as Ontario continues to ramp up testing, we'll continue to see a rising case count.

Grey-Bruce bumpkins beat The Virus

Check this out from the Toronto Star. It's not every day that we get props from national media. 

Congratulations Grey-Bruce! 

It sounds like we have a first-rate guy at the top of the health unit. Thank-you, Dr. Arra! You're worth every cent of your 30k/monthly salary!

When you get accolades from a community where a lot of folks are getting by on 30k/year, you're obviously doing something right.

Aside from having a competent guy at the top, we've also got a robust population. We have a lot of people who spend a lot of time outside and always have, which would mean healthy immune systems. There's also a lingering ethos of resiliency left over from the old days. We're not folks who run for a covid test every time we sneeze.

That's all fine and good, but we can't rest on our laurels. They keep telling us the second wave is gonna be here any day now...

Is there a market for previously vaped pot?

I asked that question of Junior when I got my first vaporizer a few years ago, because he's way more knowledgeable on this stuff than I am. 

He figured that was a bit of a stretch. 

But I asked Google the same question, and I came up with all sorts of stuff. 

First of all, it's got its own acronym!

AVB.

Stands for "already vaped bud." Who knew?

Anyway, there's a whole lotta great suggestions out there, everything from cooking and baking to making custom blunts. 

The possibilities are endless! 

You'll never get a fair "new deal," green or otherwise, from the same old ruling class

Unless they feel a little heat.

I'm not talking about the heat created by the rioting mobs. All that's going to do is bring down the wrath of the police state. 

As corrupted and dishevelled US democracy may be, it's still, so far, got the machinery of democracy in place. There remains the possibility of using that machinery for good, instead of leaving it in the hands of the corporate political professionals. That's how OAC got into Congress.

It takes a lot of grassroots work to overcome the advantage the billionaires bring to the fray.

Money.