On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

...for the Trumpomuskovians have come for the Haskell Free Library and Opera House.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/us-border-canada-quebec-stanstead-library-1.7489528

As for Mr. Dickson's warning:

“Trouble rather the tiger in his lair than the sage among his books. For to you kingdoms and their armies are things mighty and enduring, but to him they are but toys of the moment, to be overturned with the flick of a finger.”

I watched Justin Trudeau's speech via YouTube and skipped the Vulgarian's speech. Seems to have been wise regarding my mental health.

And there's concerns about the Rich, Sociopathic and Militant...

And this was the front page of the Globe and Mail today:



Simple, right?

Hoping for the best tonight for my American friends and acquaintances, whether you believe it of me or not.

Likud and Hamas are mutual enablers.

Israel and Palestine alike deserve much better than they're getting right now, on top of both peoples having the right to exist.

Leaving it at that.

1. Scientific American: Moral Injury Is an Invisible Epidemic That Affects Millions - published in 2022. This is a thing that politicians with kind intentions might be dealing with, too...

2. Canadian Press via CBC News: Foreign interference means Canada should get serious on media literacy, advocate says - published in 2023. A concern of every nation at this point, yes?

3. CBC News - Is the Bank of Canada making things worse? - published in 2023. Central bank bosses seem to be missing the points of much of the wider public right now, don't they?

4. CBC News - Construction labour crunch leaves Canada in need of boosting ranks of home builders - published in 2023.

5. Post News - COVID-19 Update for July 2023: Risks Are Low But Rising, and Too Many Are Ignoring Longer-Term Risks by Augie Ray

Good evening, everyone.

A Putinist missile gone awry from Ukraine struck Poland, killing two people.

DT-45 has declared his 2024 presidential candidacy.

I'm not happy.

And then there's this:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1133260919/an-owl-twice-attacked-a-washington-woman-a-biologist-says-its-becoming-more-comm

Noting this:

https://twitter.com/SteveGoffman/status/1589036645319249920

Of course, it doesn't feel like a dripping faucet right now. Closer to the firehose flooding the zone of the damned Steve Bannon's infamous metaphor.

1. "BYOD = Bring Your Own Distaster"?

2. Concerns over the consequences of Ukraine further reversing Putinist armed robberies.

3. The ridicule-worthiness of the official Putinist position.

https://twitter.com/TimothyDSnyder/status/1550210215878053888

Go read, please?

I was inspired by this entry by autopope on his "home" weblog:

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/04/behind-the-ukraine-war.html

As we were (rightly) advised to not centre western - including Canadian - political concerns in our comments on the Russian governance situation as Charlie understands it right now (his blog, his rules)...I'm going to post such comments here at my "home" blog where they belong:

I see Jason Kenney's government in the province of Alberta desperately trying to make sure Canada as a whole falls into the same governance trap as you describe Russia having fallen into. There's still a chance he might succeed with the help of a federal Conservative regime run by, say, Pierre Pollievre, Candice Bergen (not the American actor, the Canadian politician), Leslyn Lewis, or a few others I can think of. But the federal Conservatives first have to get a leader chosen this fall, and then that leader and whatever team they end up cobbling together has to have any hope of breaking up the confidence-and-supply agreement now in effect between the Liberals (led by Justin Trudeau) and the New Democrats (led by Jagmeet Singh).

I do worry that the Conservatives - or Maxime Bernier's "People's Party" or worse - will try to further "Putinize"/"Trumpify" Canadian society, worse than Harper already did despite his own personal antipathy to Putin.

Opinions from informed Albertans are definitely welcome here.