Category World Affairs
Redecorating
What nice idea. Donald Trump is saving American taxpayers some money with his latest idea. He has signed a proclamation designating the Oval Office in the White House a national landmark. Which means his successors, if there are any (and I am not convinced he will allow an election in 2028), will have to live […]
Voting Day Prediction
I’ve never done it before, but tonight I expect to watch the returns in the US midterm elections. Some of them anyway. Even though I don’t have a vote. I am curious as to the outcome. Mostly, I want to see if my gut feeling about this election is correct. According to all the polls, […]
The Day Before
Money talks. Should it? Is anyone listening? Americans go to the polls Tuesday to elect a third of the US Senate and all 435 members of the House of Representatives. Campaign spending has hit record amounts, billions of dollars. Political advertising alone has crossed the $11 billion mark. And there are lots of expenses besides […]
Trash Talk
In the absurdity of Donald Trump’s trade war with Canada, one item stands out as making sense. He has put a tariff on Canadian garbage. You probably didn’t know that we exported garbage to the US. Turns out is is a fair sized business. And what do Americans do with Canadian garbage? They bury it […]
Electoral Interference – I
The words mean different things to different people, but there is no doubt Donald Trump is against electoral interference. Unless he is the one doing the interfering. He recently suggested Canada and Canadians were trying to influence the outcome of the US midterm elections that are taking place next week. He seemed quite upset about […]
Learning German
Ever have one of those weekends? Me too. I was planning on writing about the municipal election today, but life intervened. So today, as I scramble to fix some things, we flash back nine years to a post from October 26, 2017. I, as I think I have mentioned, spent a lot of time working […]
The Disconnect
He may one day be President of the United States, so I felt it was important to read the book. J.D. Vance has left me unsettled, with a feeling he really doesn’t know who he is. Communion, which was published earlier this year, is the story of Vance’s return to faith. It is the story […]
Twelve Years Ago Today
Twelve years ago today a lone gunman, who we discovered later had been inspired by ISIS and had just killed a soldier standing guard at the National War Memorial, stormed through the front doors of the Centre Block of Parliament Hill. For many Canadians it was extremely disturbing to think that such a terrorist attack […]
Meet The Press
Turns out being blonde and female are not sufficient qualifications. Donald Trump has dumped his press secretary, after five days on the job. As someone who went to law school she should have known better than o misrepresent herself to the media. Has she never heard of fact checking? I suppose she could have lied. […]
Prophetic Music
When I worked in radio a lot of songs crossed my desk. I tried to listen to every record I was sent, but, years later, I don’t always remember the songs. Like this one. The single came to me from Lift Records, and independent label in Fairbanks Alaska. I don’t remember ever airing any of […]
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