The left-wing is crazy and the right-wing scares the shit out of me!

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Saturday 7 January 2023

Saturday Morning Confusion: Get Benedict!

The country of Jamaica gained its independence this year and is no longer in the British Commonwealth... 

So, they have been racking their brains trying to figure out new ways of making money!

Then some 'not-too-bright-guy' noted that Benedict Cumberbatch, a big, rich movie star, had a grandfather seven generations ago who owned slaves in Jamaica! (He was the seventh son of a seventh son!)

So they decided he would be a good person to go after for compensation, reparations, restitution,  damages or atonement for owning slaves back then!



Friday 6 January 2023

Monday 8 February 2021

BIDEN!

 Here's a picture of Biden NOT playing golf today:



Wednesday 27 January 2021

The hardest things to do in Canada

Allan: 

I think many Canadians will agree with me on this one. These days, one of the hardest things to do in Canada is simply getting a well-paying job with benefits and forging a future for yourself.

I suppose I’m lucky in that I have a decent job — not the greatest job ever, but it works for me and provides me with what I need. But two things have happened in Canada during the past 35-or-so years:

1. The cost of living has absolutely skyrocketed and owning a home will literally be impossible for many
2. Salaries have all but completely stagnated

Growing up in Canada in the 1980s, my dad had an average job with an average salary working as a salesman. My mother was a stay-at-home Mum. 

We were a family of four living in a nice house in the suburbs that was paid off, we had two cars in the driveway and we took at least one nice holiday a year. 

My brother and I both played hockey and we had full sets of equipment. At one point, my parents even considered putting my brother and me in private schools.

Try living that sort of lifestyle today in a major Canadian city as a family of four living on one parent’s “average income.” 

It would be everybody crammed into a two-bedroom apartment, one car, no holidays and certainly no private schooling for the kids.

Today, I know people in their 40s and 50s living with roommates in Toronto and Vancouver, simply because they want to live in a safe neighbourhood and don’t want to fork over upwards of 50% of their income to pay rent.

Times have indeed changed here.

Wednesday 6 January 2021

OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN!

 This is NOT how you take a tour of the Capital!



Name That Tune!

 Working as a radio consultant I am currently working on a playlist of songs that will appeal to a 35+ audience (Boomers and Gen X) and there are a lot of songs that I have to listen to in order to either..., refresh my memory..., or categorize them as a certain type of song..., so needless to say I run into a whole mess of stuff that is unacceptable to my target audience!

About an hour ago I was reviewing 6 songs by a certain artist and none of them did anything for me..., until I got to the last song on the list! This was one I immediately liked and although it was rather unfamiliar to me it was still a good tune for the "Love Songs at Night" program and I was almost about to add it to the list when I realized it was the soundtrack for the commercial THAT RAN BEFORE THE SONG! 

That's when I decided it was time for a coffee break!


Monday 4 January 2021

Winners of the Day!

 Today's prize goes to two people..., first of all, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger who artfully resisted efforts by President Donald Drumpf on Saturday to overturn the results of the November election in an hour-long phone conversation that sounded more like a mafia Don telling one of his underlings to toe the line!

During the telephone conversation, Raffensperger kept discounting Trump's claims of a crooked election and kept repeating that everything was done according to election laws..., and there was no funny business going on..., so Drumpf couldn't get him to cook the books about the election results!

THEN:

There was  Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system implementation manager, who also spent an hour on national TV today going over every one of Drumpf's claims of fraud and misrepresentation in the election as well!


Between these two men, the American people got a good look at just how stupid and corrupt Donald Trump really is..., although I don't think this will make much difference to Drumpf's base!

The way I see it anyway!