Tag: O Canada
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Local pride
The latest Collectible Auto mag features a car that nicely meshes with two of my interests. It’s a carefully maintained ’57 Studebaker sedan, made in Hamilton and bought in Vancouver. The original owner used the car for long trips, so he rigged the front seat to recline Nash-style. When he died in 1980 his grandson…
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Surprising optimism
Economist Jeff Rubin, interviewed by Tara Henley, offers one big positive surprise plus some unsurprising facts. Surprising: Rubin points out that Trump’s first term imposed new tariffs on China**. Biden bashed the tariffs for partisan advantage, but actually continued and expanded the tariffs. Now Trump 2 is imposing more. These tariffs are bringing one genuine…
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From this angle
When Bush announced the TARP bailout for stock criminals in 2008, a few “leftist” economists understood it. They called it privatizing the gains and socializing the losses. Banks and stock criminals could keep all their criminal gains from reckless betting, and the government would automatically make up their losses when their stupid bets missed the…
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Reprint on Canadian independence
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2017 REPRINT: Tech-tyrants always see governments as the problem and corporations as the solution. Not surprising for the leaders of the movement, who work for the corporations that will “finally solve” us. The followers really ought to be thinking more carefully. This article…
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Opposite options
Carney starts this speech with all options are on the table. He’s using the phrase oppositely from US leaders. When we say all options, we’re preparing to attack an innocent country that tried to be friendly. Trump is continuing the classic US mode with his attack on Canada. Canada hasn’t attacked us since 1812, and…
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Parliament is ALWAYS better
The Parliamentary system, as used in Canada and other Commonwealth countries, is INFINITELY SUPERIOR to our oligarch-designed dictatorship. In this clip CBC completely misses their own superiority. They’re mocking Canada’s ever-increasing number of seats in Parliament, implying that the US system of constant 435 is better. Canada tries to maintain about 100k people for each…
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Never too late for the Right Thing
Several public-facing federal agencies have been taking the Canadian path to handle the psychopaths. Like Trudeau and Carney in Canada, they’re resolutely maintaining a good attitude toward the public even while the psychopath chops and whips their agency. In fact this is more than good behavior. It’s damn near saintly behavior, reminiscent of the early…
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Pick a side.
Canada and EU are both sticking firmly to the irrational hatred of Russia. They won’t be able to achieve full independence from the US monster as long as they maintain the CORE INSANE BELIEF of US imperialism. Europe, of course, has been hating Russia and trying to invade it for hundreds of years. Napoleon, Kaiser…
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If Canada wants…
If Canada wants a REALLY BIG self-sufficiency project, they could build a pipeline to Europe. As I’ve noted before, there isn’t a lot of open ocean between Canada and Ireland. Ellesmere to Greenland to Iceland to Ireland would include frequent landfalls. The technology was already developed by Russia’s Nordstream, about the same length as the…
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Canada keeps doing the right thing
New PM Mark Carney is enacting some changes immediately to aid Canada’s industry and consumers. He’s repealing the destructive Carbon Tax. Carney is a pure bankster and WEFoid, and he strongly supported the Carbon nonsense before, but now he’s getting rid of it. Commentators point out that Carney won’t necessarily be in office for long;…
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Poor Canada! It’s awful!
CBC features a split town, half in Quebec and half in Vermont. The library and opera house straddles the border. I remember hearing a Ripley item about the opera house, saying that the American audience clapped for the Canadian performers on stage. The building is now a library, and the border simply runs through one…
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The answer is work
This 1935 Ford promotional film starts with a long florid speech by a pompous grandiose announcer, introducing an important address by Henry Ford himself! Mr Ford will announce the company’s way of countering the Depression. After the long highly “grammatical” intro, we hear a long florid verbose oration by Henry himself: The answer is work.…
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Who’s communist?
Trump wants to disconnect our auto industry from its foreign branches and “bring it all home”. The impulse is good but the approach is fucked up as usual. Our auto makers had foreign branches FROM THE START. Ford and Buick had Canadian plants a few years after founding, and nearly all makers had Canada plus…
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More vexillology
Following on Harper’s observations about Canada vs US in his discussion of flags. US bureaucracies and journalists and academics are responding to Trump’s cuts by protesting and petitioning. Canada is responding to Trump’s cuts by altering its behavior to SOLVE THE PROBLEM. The PROBLEM in both cases is too much dependence on US government and…
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Vexillology
Another interesting interview from The Hub. They discuss the history of flags with Stephen Harper, former Canadian PM. I’ve never paid much attention to flags because I don’t understand the whole concept of teams. I don’t grasp saluting “my flag” or “my team” or “my country”. If the government is performing its functions well, I’ll…
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