"Their Lord and Savior Taylor Swift"

Had the pleasure of attending the wedding of a dear niece this weekend. The title line came in the speech delivered by a close friend of both bride and groom, who are dyed-in-the-wool Swifties. The young couple love to travel and have already visited 18 countries. They promise the next 18 will be chalked up by following Taylor's current world tour. To be clear, the newlyweds are devout believers in the original Lord and Saviour. I'm sure if Jesus was on a world tour today, His concert dates would take priority. Alas, the Lord seems to be somewhat displeased with his creation and I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for His world tour anytime soon. Wedding's today are a bold act of defiance against the nihilistic propaganda the younger generation have been marinating in all their lives. We consistently give them one message; YOU HAVE NO FUTURE!!! If the climate crisis doesn't get you, Covid will! If robots don't steal your job, immigrants will! If you successfully dodge both immigrants and robots, Chatgtp is gonna take your job anyway! Even if you survive rising coastlines and increasing heat waves and forest fires and economic collapse, there's always Putin's nukes to destroy whatever glimmer of home might remain. So it mightily bouys my spirits when I see young people pairing up and planning families in the face of this overwhelming doom and gloom. As for the party itself, I gotta say the kids know how to have a good time. At the back of my mind, I was looking forward to demonstrating my chops on the dance floor. When the time came, I was totally awed by the level of energy. I quickly realized shaking my booty at such a frenetic pace would inevitably result in abject humiliation, not to mention the likely arrival of paramedics on the scene. I think I've become a member of generation Get out of the Way.

Data proves immigration accelerates climate change

Here’s some hard data. Canadians have one of the largest carbon footprints per capita on the entire planet, at approximately 18 metric tons per person per year. Canada also has one of the highest rates of immigration. Where are our immigrants coming from? Our top three sources of immigrants are India, China, and Afghanistan. The carbon footprint per capita in India is under two tonnes. In China, just over 7 tonnes. In Afghanistan, one third of a tonne. (Stats from Worldometers and Our World in Data.) Assuming our new Canadians adopt a Canadian lifestyle, they’ll all be massively expanding their carbon footprints once they get here. Obviously, anyone who cares about our planet should be demanding an end to immigration! That's gonna piss off the do-gooders.

Your daily dose of Yellow Peril propaganda from CBC

CBC’s The Current had a segment this morning on how terribly awful the future looks for young people in China. Apparently the economy is in the doldrums. As a result, there is an entire generation of young people who are questioning whether they will ever attain the standard of living that their parents enjoy. Who can even imagine such a thing? And if that isn’t bad enough, get a load of this; the job market for recent university graduates is so bad that many of them find themselves driving for ride-sharing services or food delivery outfits! Can you believe it! People with university degrees driving Ubers and delivering for Skip the Dishes? Outrageous! So buck up young Canucks, and be thankful you are blessed to live in this land of opportunity! And if you happen to be one of the multitude of Canadian university graduates driving for Uber or Skip and wondering if you’ll ever be able to attain your parents’ standard of living, shut up… at least you’ve got freedom!

Pine Creek First Nation excavates 14 burial sites identified by Ground Penetrating Radar and finds 0 bodies

It was almost two months ago that Pine Creek FN announced they were excavating a church basement where ground-penetrating radar had detected 14 “anomalies.” Over the past couple of years, ground-penetrating radar has created tons of headlines and sold a lot of flags. At no point did I ever see any discussion about the veracity of ground-penetrating radar in locating buried bodies. For anyone who bothered to look into the matter, it became very clear very fast that GPR ain’t worth shit in terms of actually locating buried bodies. Not every “anomalie” is a grave. As far as I am aware, Pine Creek FN in Manitoba is the first community that has dared excavate these anomalies. The results are in. Zero graves found for 14 "anomalies." Nobody has pushed the "unmarked graves" story harder than CBC. Wonder when they'll report the results of the excavation?

The difference between a yoga position and a fentanyl jag

Me and Big Lips Bruno got to the dog park first thing this morning, due to the late summer heat wave. If I don't get the big boy out in the cool of the early morning, he'll get no exercise at all. I noticed on our first lap that the homeless encampment that had sprouted up in the field next door was mostly gone. But a solitary figure 100 yards away caught my eye. Looked like a Muslim at prayer, but he wasn't facing Mecca, so I knew that couldn't be it. By our third or fourth lap he had shifted somewhat, into what looked like a possible yoga position. He maintained that for some time, but by our sixth lap he was on all fours. By the tenth lap he was standing up! Alas, one lap later he was down on his knees again. Five laps after that, he was standing bent over with his pants down. Next lap, back to square one but now bare-assed and tangled up in his trousers. That's around the time me and Bruno headed out. After 45 minutes of watching this lost soul try to stand up, I wonder if he ever succeeded?

Zelensky betrays his sugar daddy

It came as a shock to read that Ihor Kolomoisky has been detained in Ukraine on suspicion of financial hanky-panky involving the paltry sum of a few millions of dollars. As a matter of course, Kolomoisky’s financial shenanigans more typically involve billions, not millions. It is perhaps a measure of the man’s hubris that he was even present in Ukraine to be detained. He clearly believed he was untouchable. As an Israeli citizen he could readily have stayed home in deportation-proof Israel, but maybe he’s a true Ukrainian patriot at heart, and wanted to do his part for the war effort. Whatever his reasoning, he’s up something of a stump now. After all his years investing in Zelensky’s career, guiding him from the comedy clubs all the way to the presidency, this betrayal must come as quite a shock. On the other hand, he should have seen it coming. After all, it has been beyond obvious for the past year and a half that Zelly has a new sugar daddy with much deeper pockets; Joe Biden.

Washington's war on France

Al Jazeera is featuring live coverage today of thousands of Nigerien protesters surrounding a French military base, demanding that French troops leave the country. This comes after the deadline has passed for France’s ambassador to go home. In relations between sovereign states, the expulsion of an ambassador means bilateral relations are in grave danger of descending into conflict. When Macron brazenly insists his ambassador remain in Niger, he is deliberately escalating an already explosive situation. Macron’s rationale is that he is standing up for democratic ideals by defying the coup leaders. Here’s where Uncle Sam comes in to muddy the waters. By refusing to call the coup by its name, America gives legitimacy to the coup leaders and undercuts Macron. Why? Recall that Zbigniew Brzezinski in The Grand Chessboard spelled out the need for America to achieve and maintain full spectrum dominance over any country or group of countries that could emerge to threaten its global dominance. We’ve been conditioned to believe that any such group of countries could only emerge from those we consider hostile; ie some combination of Iran, Russia, China and a few other illiberal authoritarian states. Deep State strategists see things differently. They could see the danger to US hegemony of major EU states getting too cozy with Russia. Hence the destruction of the NordStrom2 pipelines, an act of war against our democratic allies in Europe. Germany is now rapidly deindustrializing due to forced reliance on US LNG that is exponentially more expensive than Russian gas. France was not as beholden to Russian gas supplies but has other vulnerabilities. The French state clings still to the colonial hangover of “French Africa.” That’s why Macron imagines he retains the last word on what happens in former colonies. By forcing the situation in Niger to open conflict he will soon find himself embroiled in another Algerian war. American hegemony depends on not only weakening rivals like Russia, Iran, and China. It also depends on weakening allies who could someday become rivals, like France and Germany. The first shot at France was the cancelation of its $90 billion submarine contract with Australia. That was a major blow to France’s armaments industry and international prestige. A quagmire in Africa will doom France to third-tier status in the hierarchy of nations for generations to come.