TRUMP THREATENS O’DONNELL WITH HER CITIZENSHIP

When Donny’s pissed at you, it may not end well, particularly if you value your citizenship.

Remember when Elon and Donny got into it a few weeks back when Elon started to get all lip about Trump’s BBB — Big Beautiful Bill — that had just passed Congress.  Apparently, after taking a chainsaw to government operations as part of his leadership of DOGE — Department of Government Efficiencies — Musk was bent a bit out of shape by the fact that Trump’s bill actually added trillions of dollars to the national debt, something Elon felt was a bit counter-productive to his own efforts at DOGE.

He said some things.  He called The Donald some names.  He mentioned something about Jeffrey Epstein’s list, the most talked-about and speculated-about list in modern times.

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FEDS TO PUMP MONEY INTO MILITARY

The federal government has indicated that they will begin to spend billions of dollars more on national defence.  In fact, billions and billions.

If you think that’s something that should have been done all along, you’d not be incorrect.  If you’re someone who wonders about stuff like this, and further wonders where the money is going to come from, you’d not be alone.  And if you’re afraid it may come at the expense of social programs or other areas of governmental involvement, and you wonder which ones?

Join the club.  Get in line.  Here’s your t-shirt.

I suppose there’s another category of person out there, the type that feels government should get out of everybody’s face and simply allow economic Darwinism to be the prevailing thought, then good for you, but sorry, you have no place in any reasonable discussion around the military budget specifically, or the federal budget generally.  Go home and count your money, and please try to stay out of the way of the grownups.  In other words, stay out of our face.

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WHEN AN ARGUMENT COMES TO A HEAD

I suppose when it comes to politics, I can be as passionate as the next fellow.  But that said, when I encounter political thinking that doesn’t align with mine, I try not to lose my head.

Politics is dangerous business, and I say that because of the potential minefield that can pop up out of nowhere at work, at play, hell even at the family dinner table.  Politics can take fast friends, trusted colleagues, and beloved family members down a bad road as easily, even more easily, than religion.  I guess that’s why it’s recommended you don’t talk about either when you’re out in the wild with friends and associates or at home with family and extended family.

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TERRORISM WITH A WHITE FACE

They were young, male, and unforgivably stupid, which works both ways, one way against us and the other for.

The downside is that every man-jack of these idiots were acting service members of the Canadian Armed Forces, all of them infantry soldiers.  These are the boneheads who fight for our country, at least when the time comes, and as long as it doesn’t offend their ideological beliefs.  They are professional soldiers, although the use of the term professional is entirely undeserved.

The upside is the fact that every one of these losers is a card-carrying idiot-stick, and so extremely easy to discover, reveal, and as of yesterday, arrest.

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PROTECTING THE FUTURE OF OUR PAST

Many years ago, I undertook a project that would recapture and bring to life the histories of two places I has some familiarity with, St. Thomas the Apostle School and St. Francis Xavier Church.

In order to successfully bring that mandate to a successful outcome, I had to pour over hundreds of photos, documents, and other pieces of memorabilia that were stored in dozens of cardboard boxes.  These boxes, and the treasures they contained, were almost always tucked away in some out-of-sight-out-of-mind part of the building, something I suspect is the case for most places, and even families, who take the time to save the stuff for preservation then, having no plan beyond that, consign these treasures to the ubiquitous cardboard box for somebody to come along in a couple of decades to make sense of it.

But what if nobody comes along?

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RESIDENTIAL PLAN FOR LISGAR

What happens at 436 Lisgar Street is probably not top of mind for most folks unless they live across from it or drive by it on the way to and from home, school, or work.

It’s a stretch of land that basically sits across the street from Renfrew’s dilapidated Public Works garage.  In fact, at some point not long ago, this same stretch of land was intended to be used as a public works yard, perhaps the very place where a new garage might be situated, right after the existing one either collapses under its on weight or is taken down by a municipality painfully short on dollars.  It appears that municipality spent all the money they didn’t have on a facility right around the corner, the place with the radio station logo on it, the one they named after themselves.  So my money is on gravity, and the impending implosion of the building currently held together with elastic bands, duct tape, and best wishes of a council long on ambition but short on cash.

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BAT 365: MIXING COFFEE AND POLITICS

It didn’t take long for the BATs — Boys At Timmy’s — to go sour on Mark Carney.

That’s not entirely accurate though, because in order to go sour on something, you must first have had some, albeit grudging, degree of sweetness, although that’s way too strong of a word to apply to the hard men who hold court at Tim Hortons franchises across this great land every afternoon of the week.  Long accustomed to being the primary political thinkers in their respective communities, they never really took to Carney in the first place.  Instead, when they saw the political winds shift biblically from the Conservatives to the Liberals, they decided to hold their fire and seek cover, at least and until their natural instincts of baked-in oppositional thinking kicked back in.

To see them, and to hear them rise from the metaphorical ashes and begin their campaign of perpetual sour grapes is sort of like watching a healthy ecosystem re-balance itself, like a creek snaking its way through a modern subdivision.  Except for the healthy part.

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