Your middle of the week stroll through the pines ...
Four years of pettiness and stupidity, all because Hillary Clinton assume the office her bloated husband once disgraced, are finally at an end:
President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his U.S. Senate impeachment trial, saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided America to give him a second White House term.
Nancy Pelosi is no doubt reflecting on her silly little speech-ripping stunt.
Trump will soon coat his fists in adamantium and punch the Democrats in the kidneys this November for their tireless efforts to overturn an election with lies and histrionics.
It should be a lesson to all Americans that this is what the Democratic Party was willing to do because it did not get its way. This makes it dangerous, if not simply foolhardy, to give them any sort of authority or power.
Trump's State of the Union address in which his successes were outlined only reminds one of how pathetic this former dominion currently is:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have racked up more debt than any other Canadian government that didn’t fight a world war or endure a recession during the last 125 years.
A bulletin issued Tuesday by the Fraser Institute says Trudeau will have increased the per-person federal debt by 5.6% (or $1,723) — from approximately $30,922 in 2015 to $32,645 in 2019 — the highest percentage amount since 1895 outside of World war or economic downturn.
“As you increase debt, you’re putting upward pressure on interest costs and as you divert more tax dollars to interest costs, that leaves fewer resources for tax relief or government programs,” said Fraser Institute policy analyst Jake Fuss.
“It also burdens future generations of Canadians, because they have to repay the debt and corresponding interest payments, potentially through higher taxes. It’s essentially asking young kids to foot the bill of today’s spending while in the future, they may not enjoy the same benefits.”
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Canada’s participation would provide regular access to representatives from China, Russia and on the incoming council, India.
“We would be sitting, literally, beside the Chinese every day for two years, which opens up opportunities for conversations you would not normally have,” said Chapnick, referring to the current problems Canada is facing freeing detainees, Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor.
An "expert" said this.
Now, Canada has NO political, military, economic, legal or moral clout with any of the countries listed above (I'm sure India hates us now) and certainly not with the re-emerging power that is the United States.
China makes it clear at every possible turn that it owns Canada in all but name:
“Nobody in the Chinese government wants to meet with a Canadian minister or special envoy -- even if the prime minister were to phone [Chinese] President Xi Jinping, he would not take the call,” Saint-Jacques said.
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China’s embassy in Ottawa warned Canada on Sunday to stop meddling in Hong Kong affairs a day after the country issued a joint statement with the European Union in defence of the “fundamental right of assembly” for Hong Kong citizens.
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The Chinese government has held up Canada as a bulwark of calm next to the more dramatic U.S. reaction to the spread of the Wuhan virus, drawing Ottawa into the middle of a new spat between the world’s two largest economic powers – even as plunging stock markets reflect widespread panic among people across China.
Does that sound like a country that takes Canada seriously or does that sound like master bringing his lap dog to heel?
China certainly wouldn't be afraid of the Right Honourable Weakling or his sycophantic planted lackeys:
Genuis said Barton’s work at McKinsey put him in a conflict of interest.
“You advised almost two dozen state-owned Chinese companies,” he said.
Genuis focused on McKinsey’s consulting work for a Chinese company that constructed islands in the South China sea in an effort to expand the country’s territorial waters. He also pointed out to reports the company held a conference within a few miles of an internment camp in China.
“Are you comfortable that all of these things were happening when you were setting the policy direction?” asked Genuis.
Barton said the company was unaware of the camp when it held the conference.
Bullsh--.
China may be a paper dragon but it knows who it owns and it owns a narcissist whose people are too stupid to realise that they are handing their children debt.
I'm sure it's nothing at all to worry about:
On 30 December he sent a message to fellow doctors in a chat group warning them about the outbreak and advising they wear protective clothing to avoid infection.
What Dr Li didn't know then was that the disease that had been discovered was an entirely new coronavirus.
Four days later he was summoned to the Public Security Bureau where he was told to sign a letter. In the letter he was accused of "making false comments" that had "severely disturbed the social order".
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The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third consecutive record daily rise, as experts intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that has shut down Chinese cities and forced thousands more into quarantine around the world.
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A chartered plane carrying Canadians from the centre of a virus outbreak in China is scheduled to depart Thursday.
(Sidebar: so late in the game? They can join the fifth person to be diagnosed with the coronavirus in Canada. YAY!)
But Canadians aren't worried. They know that budgets balance themselves and that sewing a Canadian flag on your backpack makes one safe.
Today in political corruption news:
The cost to the Canadian government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's controversial vacation on the Aga Khan's private island in the Bahamas increased to $271,000 when the RCMP wrote a cheque two weeks ago for $56,000 worth of meals, accommodations and jet ski rentals.
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Sen. Lynn Beyak should be suspended again without pay, the Senate’s ethics committee recommended Friday.
Take. A. Pay-cut:
If these ads are in violation of the law, then so are the never-ending ads from teachers. As I reported over the weekend, Ontario’s three unions representing English school teachers have spent more than $900,000 just on Facebook ads in the last few months.
But ... but ... the children!
What they should be asking is why he is stealing oxygen:
Relatives of a slain American soldier have won a skirmish in their attempt to collect on a wrongful-death award worth $134-million US against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr.
A skirmish? Like it's unfair for them to ask why Khadr killed their loved one?
F--- you, CBC.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Kirk Douglas:
Kirk Douglas, one of the leading stars of Hollywood’s golden age, has died. He was 103.
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