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1. 2 days ago on The Other Coast

   Yeah, but how do you think we proved it?

2. 3 days ago on Over the Hedge

   Every time I go to the town dump there are at least two dozen bald eagles hanging around in all stages of maturity. Some on the building roof, some on the power poles, many just sitting in the garbage pile. And during deer season you can always tell where somebody shot a deer by the eagles hanging around eating the entrails.

3. 5 days ago on Luann Againn

   Do this, don’t do that, can’t you read the sigh…

4. 10 days ago on Barney & Clyde

   Thanks, but that’s just a random date. What I meant was that her long-term memory is still very good but her mind has essentially become “read only”. She cannot remember anything from the past three years. If you tell her something or if she experiences something she will have no memory of it (she forgot having a heart attack, she forgot spending a week in the hospital with COVID, etc). But she can still polish off a New York Times crossword with little trouble.

5. 10 days ago on Barney & Clyde

   My mother is at stage 6 Alzheimer’s. She can’t remember one minute to the next. But she can remember what she was doing, and with whom, on October 24, 1953.

6. 23 days ago on Barney & Clyde

   You think that’s gonna happen overnight, do you? The “Factory fairy” is just gonna leave new car plants and oil fields under everyone’s pillows? It will take years to develop new factories and oil infrastructure. The orange baboon will hopefully be but a distant unpleasant memory by the time that happens. In the mean time you will pay more or go without. And then, once those things are developed you will pay more anyway because those things don’t come for free and there’s a reason the factories were relocated out of USA to begin with.

7. 23 days ago on Breaking Cat News

   Elvis does not mess around!

8. 24 days ago on Barney & Clyde

   In case you haven’t been paying attention, Trump is already planning on putting a tariff on Canadian auto parts. And Canadian oil. What Trumpernutters don’t understand is that it is Americans that will pay the tariffs. Your gas will cost more (I’ve read that it will add up to 70 cents per gallon to gas prices). Your cars will cost more. Your lumber will cost more. Your food will cost more. And because Trump is deporting all of your cheap labour you won’t be able to simply produce your own stuff. Factories do not appear and become operational overnight. If GM needs to pay 25% more to bring that engine block in from Canada or Mexico the customer will pay that 25%. And USA would have a difficult time negotiating any trade agreements with other nations because Trump has shown that agreements with the USA aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

   Trump has been lying to you (oh, God , the lies). USA exports more items to Canada than vice versa. Border security between USA and Canada for things entering USA is America’s responsibility. Just like us trying to keep American guns out of Canada.

9. 24 days ago on Barney & Clyde

   That is on us. We put all our economic eggs into one basket, thinking that our largest trading partner was honourable and reliable. Trump has just shown us the mistake we’ve made. If I were Canada’s trade minister I’d be working on trade deals with Japan, Mexico, Korea, Europe, South America, and China (China leads the world in electric vehicles, would be nice to see Tesla take some damage). I would put a tariff on USA-built cars so high that there would never be another one sold in this country. I’d also be canceling the F35 fighter deal and buying our jets from Saab (or building our own).

10. 25 days ago on Barney & Clyde

    I am Nova Scotian, and I’ve long felt that the Canadian Maritime should combine into one province, at least for the sake of governing. Of course the three provinces would remain distinct, much like Newfoundland and Labrador are now, but combining the three provincial governments into one would be a lot more efficient.