And another beautiful day is on deck… which is really nice. Yesterday got nice, although it was a bit cooler all day than the previous couple of days. I’m hoping for another clear sunny day, with moderate temps. Everyone in the neighborhood is out walking with either babies, dogs, or sometimes both.
I mostly did auction pickups yesterday. It was domestic bliss in the morning, and driving around in the afternoon. Most of the stuff yesterday was for the BOL, although there were a couple items that will be gifts and a couple of things for resale.
Now I need to get busy listing some stuff to turn it back into money.
That probably won’t happen today though. If it is as nice as I hope, I’ll try doing some of the outdoor stuff I’ve been putting off. I do have to hit one of my auctioneers for a pickup, but that won’t take long.
I’m sleeping in as long as I can. It stops me getting a jump on stuff, but helps me with physical and mental health. Then if I can pull it together, I’ll tick off some boxes on the list. (Some of the stuff I need to do is to get access to my hamfest inventory. I’ve got this week to get ready.) Strangely, we don’t have a ton of family activities planned, only a Girl Scout cookie booth each day. I’m sure other things will pop up.
And I’m sure that stacks will help. No matter what the issue is. So get busy.
nick
The stock market will crash the moment one of the AI plates stop spinning.
Gas generators are the only realistic short termoption the industry has for meeting the increased power needs of the new hardware.
Home servers arrive with Project Digits in June if NVIDIA’s current timetable holds.
Feeding Our Fraud: “The madness that this case has become”
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/feeding-our-fraud-the-madness-that-this-case-has-become.php
Feeding Our Future aka Somali Scam I*. Despite the head being a white woman who took kickbacks for providing the structure to fleece the taxpayers out of $250 million dollars, the rest of the organization was nearly 100% Somali.
The above link includes the tale of the second episode of witness tampering in this series of trials. 36 convictions so far, but it’s notable that the decision has been made not to prosecute the wife of a Minneapolis City Council member. Watch the imbedded video from Channel 11, and ask yourself if with his wife involved he didn’t use his position to perpetuate the scam knowing full well it was fraudulent.
Somali Scam II is a cookie of another shape with largely the same ingredients, designed around child care.
As I was saying:
Cartel Crack Down: SecDef Hegseth Warns Mexico We Are Prepared to Take Action if They’re Not
If you want a War on Drugs, you use “shooster guns”. Mexico is our new Special Forces training ground.
>>We are not the World’s police.
Somebody needs to send out a memo. Still too many swamp dwellers haven’t gotten the message.
We wanted to be the world’s police and set ourselves up that way. NOW we don’t want to be or possibly now we can’t afford to be, so we will need to end that. It will have the benefit of not p!ssing people off when we meddle in their domestic affairs.
We’ve already lost most of our empire, or are well on our way, and this will accelerate that.
Dunno if that will be a good thing or bad in the long run.
n
– bird strike on takeoff
n
Clickbait headline. A bird ingestion and simple engine fire. It happens, no-one was hurt.
Release the video. Highest res available so it can be analyzed for fakery.
Today I’d planned to cut up a couple of trees which blew down into the yard a couple weeks ago. The weather is finally good enough, coinciding with daughter being available and healthy so I could show her how to maintain and use a chainsaw.
That is, the weather was good enough. I’d put on my protective clothing and had just stepped out to get the chainsaw from the shed when the wind went from “breeze” to “brace yourself” and the rain went from “a drop here and there” to “bloosh”. So I turned around and hung up my jacket to dry and told The Child about the change in plans. The rain went back to “a drop here and there” but the wind is still a bit windier than I care for, so we’ll see about some other day. The Child was not heartbroken.
You’ll sometimes see a movie or read a novel about space aliens who take the form of particular humans and act like them to fit into their families, for whatever mysterious end. They have to be pleasant and mild to avoid rousing suspicion.
Does anyone know how to contact these aliens? Do they take requests? Asking for a friend.
In totally-not-related news, I’ve been counting down the years and months and days since it was “six years, eight months, seventeen days” or thereabouts. Down to four months. I feel almost lightheaded.
The chickens are not loving the weather. This Winter, their second, is much worse than their first. Not that they remember a year ago, I imagine. Colder and much more snow. On (relatively) good days I let them out and they’ll go up the side stairs, across the driveway, along the short sidewalk to the front door … and that’s about it. They’ll peck at the seed I toss out for the wrens and jays (and in practice squirrels), maybe work their way under the sunward side of a bush, and generally mill around. Very seldom is there any complaint when I tell them to Go Home.
That changed in the past couple days. The days have generally been above freezing and the nights always below. You know what that means: ice. The part of the patio which is not covered by the deck is a sheet of ice. Some of the snow on the non-stairs side of the house has melted and the birds discovered it and were wandering around, going about their chickenly activities. Brown Hen needed to lay, so she walked from the side yard to the two steps leading down to the patio, saw the ice, didn’t want to step onto the ice, and didn’t know what to do. Oh, I know! “Aaawwwwwwwwkk!” She kept up the piteous crying until I came around and figured out her problem. Picked her up (with no objection; she normally doesn’t want to be to close to a human unless treats are in hand), carried her across the impassable ice, and put her in the run. She booked it up into the coop, leaving a virtual cloud of dust in her wake.
The weather has changed again. While I was typing all that, the snow started. Air temp is still fractionally above freezing, having dropped from 45F a couple hours ago, so I don’t imagine this will do anything good in terms of making the ground and especially the patio more walkable.
Book recommendation:
Super Powereds series by Drew Hayes. I don’t think I’ve recommended it here before. As the name suggests, it’s a world with superpowered people. The main characters in the series have defective powers. Good character development, several Crowning Moments of Awesome, somewhat plausible world building.
I read the in-progress series online some years ago; haven’t read the published version but reports are that it’s the same with some minor edits.
New ”Death In Paradise” episodes are airing on BBC One on Fridays.
I’m sure theh MSM will find a way to blame Trump or DOGE for this.
leaving a virtual cloud of dust in her wake.
– like a short and chubby Road Runner…
n
I’m sure theh MSM will find a way to blame Trump or DOGE for this.
– the obvious one is to find out if the guy who is supposed to be scaring the birds was sent home… Or if the budget for noisemakers was cut.
Since birds aren’t real, the most likely answer is that the grey alien lizard people used the fake birds as a weapon to try to take down the plane which must have been carrying some incriminating evidence related to the Epstein files, the Clinton server, or the successful coup after JFK was assassinated by government agencies working in concert to keep the black man down. Or someone found out that the plane is really one of the airborne tankers outfitted to spray chemicals into the air as part of the grey/lizard terraforming process and hijacked the government’s fake birds to strike a blow for humanity in the endless shadow war.
Could be either really.
n
Greenland will make up for it. LOL
Why not both?
Why not both?
– so I should embrace the power of ‘and’?
then it COULD be a false flag operation aimed at discrediting the human defense league’s efforts to save the race from its fate as feedstock…
n
“Greenland will make up for it. LOL”
And Canada.
I have a hunch that there is a method beyond Trump’s apparent madness–as is often the case. Europe is sliding into the shitter, with one arm held high to keep pulling the flush handle. Africa is busy conducting pogroms as the natives destroy what the white settlers spent years building. The Middle East is heading for an Islamist immolation, we don’t need their oil and they have nothing else to offer. China will move on Taiwan as soon as they think they can get away with it–a date that is pushed off considerably with Trump/Vance in office.
Annex Greenland and non-Quebec Canada and it solves much of the raw material shortage. Clean up Mexico and extend our security perimeter to Panama by means diplomatic or otherwise, solving the illegal invasion problem.
Expand the home front:
The Catholic Church is a subversive organization. Bill them for the illegals they have trafficked into the U.S., and put a large DOJ task force in place to coordinate justice for the generations of predations by pedophile priests, rather than the piecemeal lawsuits we have seen so far. Let them be a church again, not an agent of chaos.
Discontinue federal involvement in college loans, investigate and prosecute fraud inherent in outrageously priced tuition for worthless degrees. Facilitate student lawsuits. Reduce government research grants without a clear public purpose. Find seventeen ways from Sunday to punish the viewpoint discrimination that is de facto demonstrated by a 95+% PLT faculty. Gut the accreditation system that has become an instrument of DEI.
ADDED:
Victor Davis Hanson wrote 10 points on the Zelenskyy blow-up and #3 is relevant:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/03/hanson-goldman-on-the-oval-office-showdown.php
Not happening. (Wait and see what the yam’s threatened tariffs do to the cost of gas and food in the US). I will stick with saying that “annexation” is incredibly disrespectful and rude (because I am Canadian and polite). I was going to drop the gloves (hockey-analogy, always followed by very rude behavior), but what’s the point? You are deluded if you think more than 1 Canadian in 10 is interested in becoming American (and the 1 in 10 can move south and good riddance.)
I would go with abrupt and premature. More of an Overton window thing than an immediate plan.
What Canadians think now is one thing. What you think 3 or 4 years from now, when your commie politicians continue to bankrupt and ruin your counrty and you continue to coddle the Frenchies is what matters.
When your “free” healthcare includes MAID as an immediate option for every illness, when it is unsafe to leave your house (or even to remain in it due to invaders), when English is replaced with Spanish, Mandarin, and Hindi in all the big cities, while the US is reversing all those trends, it might be a more attractive option. And Trump has started setting the stage for that.
I like “yam”. It clearly demonstrates seriousness.
Since you are unaware of what Canadians think now, I think it presumptuous to believe you will have any idea what Canadians will think in a few years. Reading your 3rd paragraph makes clear that the delusion is even greater than I thought.
I did mess up with “yam” as I said I was trying to be polite. Oops. I wasn’t trying to be serious. Post the “governor of Canada” comments, I think contempt for the “fat yam” is the correct behavior.
At the Federal level, resume enforcement of student loan payments, maintain a hard line about forgiveness, and the borrowers will figure out the rest.
At the state level, the public university “scholarship” programs using proceeds from various lottery schemes need to stop. The upper middle class who are the true beneficiaries of the programs have other means to fund their snowflakes’ art degrees.
You are deluded if you think more than 1 Canadian in 10 is interested in becoming American (and the 1 in 10 can move south and good riddance.
— it has been a while since I was in Canada for any length of time, but BigCorp is a Canadian company, and I worked for them for years. I held the equivalent of a green card (work permit) for Canada for most of that time. I spent months at a time in Alberta working. I commuted to our office in the Toronto area during my entire employment, at least every couple of months for meetings.
What the majority of Canadians think? Dude. You fear and denigrate nationalism. You officially celebrate diversity. There is no national “Canadian” identity. There isn’t a “majority” of anything, except the giant chip on the shoulder that many have that leads to the anti-identity of “we’re not American” being declared often and loudly. Because of that, I don’t think a majority of the people that live in Canada would support joining the US at this time, but the UK is not the strong ally it once was, and the world is about to “get the flu” as the saying goes. People living in Canada might rethink their position after the Chinese abuse them for a few years…
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Canada’s GDP ranks TENTH in the world after ITALY and Brazil. GDP per capita has the US at 10th, and Canada at 22nd. The current population is <40M, which places it 38th in the world, (US is third after China and India). Canada has roughly the same number of people as Cali, and ⅔ the GDP, and only 7 million more people than Texas with approximately the same GDP.
Some Canadians seem to have an unrealistic and outsized view of their significance and power on the world economic stage.
The US isn’t in the habit of annexing neighbors in this millennium or much in that last, but there might end up being some compelling reasons, especially if the UK and Europe fall to a new Caliphate.
n
What Canadians think now…
https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/43-percent-canadians-would-vote-be-american-if-citizenship-and-conversion-assets-usd-guaranteed
Commentary on the poll –
– ask again in 2, 4, 6, and 8 years….
n
added- as a thought experiment, imagine what the numbers would have been if it wasn’t bellicose Trump making the comments…
“Dark Lightning (Thunder and Lightning)” by John Varley
https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Lightning-Thunder-John-Varley/dp/042527408X?tag=ttgnet-20/
Book number four of a four book young adult space opera series. I read the well printed and well bound MMPB published by Ace in 2014 that I bought new on Amazon since my books are packed in the garage. This is my third or fourth reread of this book. I will buy any fifth book in the series. In fact, I will buy and read just about any new Varley book. Sadly, John Varley retired in 2023 when his beloved wife passed away.
https://www.discoursemagazine.com/p/john-varley-an-appreciation
Each one of the Thunder and Lighting books highlights a new generation in the connected families since the first generation of the connected families in the first book. This book specifically covers Podkayne and Jubal Broussard’s twin eighteen year old daughters: Cassie (Cassiopeia) and Polly (Pollyanna), the fourth generation to live off the Earth. And yes, there are serious Heinlein fanboy comments all throughout the series as Varley is very heavily influenced by Robert Heinlein. This book is dedicated to Spider and Jeanne Robinson.
Cassie and Polly were born and raised on the “Rolling Thunder”, the hollowed out eight mile long by four mile wife asteroid that Travis and Jubal Broussard, their families, and 200,000 other people are taking to a faraway star system. The journey is taking many decades so most of the people are spending the entire journey in stasis, the black bubble technology invented by Jubal Broussard using his squeezer technology as a base. BTW, Earth is becoming uninhabitable at this point due to seven huge aliens from Europa who have destroyed the climate.
Jubal Broussard comes out of his bubble every month for a week to spend time with his wife and daughters. But this time, he comes out of the bubble and yells, “Stop the ship, or everyone will die”. The ship is traveling at 0.77 of the speed of light and cannot be stopped easily, requiring twenty years of deceleration. Due to the seriousness of the situation, a significant portion of the 20,000 crew members who are awake decide to mutiny and take over. Not good.
My previous review of this book: “Book number four of a four book series. This is a MMPB book. This is probably the end of the series. I have yet to read a bad Varley book and this is certainly one of his best ones. Very heavily influenced by Heinlein’s young adult series as one of the characters is named Podkayne. This is a series about the creation of a new power source and the subsequent application of that power source for intrasolar and interstellar space travel. The Earth is becoming uninhabitable due to an alien invasion so Travis, Jubal and 20,000+ of their best friends build a spaceship out of a six mile by four mile asteroid and leave. The story is told from the perspective of the two twin daughters of Jubal who pops in and out occasionally using a stasis bubble.”
John Varley has a website at:
https://varley.net/
My rating: 6 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (501 reviews)
Lynn
BC: Get In Shape
https://www.gocomics.com/bc/2025/02/26
Either get in shape or get eaten.
Now do American blacks. To a first approximation they have no identity other than “we’re not White”, with occasional mention of pyramids and Wakanda.
Just curious if the same poll has been run in Mexico?
Something like 40% of the world would move to the US if they could. That was back around 2016 and was based on surveys, but actual population movements seem to bear it out.
Generally I would prefer TV replied since he appears to be somewhat more articulate. The answer to the poll about Canadians wanting to be Americans depends exactly how the question was asked. To see why that is important watch “Yes Prime Minister”.
What most Canadians would like is the American standard of living without having to work like Americans.
I feel like Austrian in 1938 or a Pole after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact. The United States is not to be trusted.
The last couple of nights haven’t been warm enough to turn on the electric blanket. But it’s been cool enough the bed is cold. I had a thought.
It was a waterbed. When it started to leak, someone went shopping for a memory foam mattress. The latest and greatest thing at the time. He found what he wanted on eBay. I shopped a bit and found the same thing from the same seller for $50 less. So it has been a memory foam mattress for the last ten years. I’m still not a fan…. but generally it’s better than sleeping on the sofa.
Penny will be 14 in October. Her hind legs are getting weak. At bedtime I hoist her up. I don’t know how she would react to a full motion waterbed. I can keep the memory foam meanwhile.
Buddy the Beagle? He’ll just have to deal with it.
I did laundry today. Most of it. Some is still drying. I was standing on a step stool to put away sweat shirts and sweat pants. It’s just easier with the stool to put the fresh washed stuff under what is on the shelf. Yeah, I rotate my clothes.
Glanced around and hey, wait a minute. There is no “my side” of the closet now. There is a lot of empty shelving.
It was an odd feeling.
@paul, can you even get a water bed anymore? I loved my waveless. It was always at the right temperature, unless I wasn’t alone. Then it was too hot.
It aged to the point I couldn’t keep it patched enough, and I finally got rid of it. Still have pieces of the frame in my workshop.
It was a lot easier to move when I moved house than a mattress.
n
The direct question in 4 polls (per Wikipedia) including the IPSOS poll.
Should Canada join the United States of America as the 51st state: 71%, 80%, 90%, 82% in each poll said no.
71% or higher in a world where presidents are determined by single digits is landslide solid. To be sure, there are questions that have people hedging their bets, which you pointed out. I laugh at 43% of young Canadians would vote to join the US. Really? Can you get 25% of young Canadians or Americans to come out and vote for anything, even things that are directly in their interests?
As for thought experiments, I don’t think that 1) A non-bellicose yam exists: 2) A polite offer would never be made publicly by a US president (so both are null cases) but if it happened we would politely say no (no one except some politicians are being polite to the yam).
What will happen in 2-8 years? I expect the angry yam will tire of playing the uncertainty game and actually put in those tariffs in the next few months. Canada will fire back with tariffs, and include export taxes on anything Americans really need from Canada that may have been exempted (oil, electricity, aluminum, potash, lumber). Hello inflation and lower employment. Both sides are going to take a beating, Canada much worse than the US, all to satisfy the yam’s ego. In 4 years you will have a new president (unless the egomaniacal yam decides he wants to be president for life, (and you let him violate the constitution) in which case all bets are off.) Things may revert, but I think not as any trust Canada would have in a deal with the US is now gone. Canada was a viable country for 100 years before free trade and during decades of high tariffs. It will remain viable, if a bit poorer.
It is all such a waste.
Thanks for the compliment Rolf, mostly I am just long-winded.
I agree with the point on how the question is asked, which is why I paid attention to results from only the direct question. No Jedi mind games allowed.
@tv
Realpolitik.
Don’t play the injured party until you apologize for gouging us with tariffs. If the U.S. imposes symmetrical tariffs, our “friends”in Canada and Europe all go down and we save $300+ billion per year. We can put up a lot of greenhouses with that, but probably won’t need to if we expel the PLT’s in Cali and keep the ports, the federal lands including the national parks, northern California and the agricultural areas that the PLT’s have tried to destroy.
As to “annexation” being disrespectful and rude, I’m willing to use whatever word you wish, but if Alberta is truly fed up with supporting Quebec and being throttled from developing their resources, they can secede and things get interesting. Would Quebec be willing to become a net supporter of The Maritimes? Heck, we’ll take The Maritimes and the new Trump “Anne of Green Gables” theme park will probably make them self-sufficient.
[Hockey is still a thing? I thought it died after being sissified moving indoors and needing a special machine to shave the ice flat? I saw a proto-type Lego Zamboni once–they killed it after marketing determined that there were only 27 potential sales if they factored in the socioeconomic market after the tariffs.}
And, btw, the “endangerment finding” is going away. If the stake can be driven through the hearts of the green weinies baseline electric generation with coal will make a big comeback–we have 200 years of reserves, which means there is so much coal that we can’t help finding more of it (because, fer cryin’ out loud, who would be looking for more than 100 years worth? Natural gas will resume being the cost-efficient fuel for home heating, dispatchable electric generation and chemical synthesis.
[For the observant, yes, I am trying to reform myself and abstain from the use of the Harvard comma. ]
LMFAO!
I don’t think Canadians will vote to join the US. I don’t think the US would HAVE Canada if they asked. I don’t think it’s outrageous to ask the question and consider the options. Lots of families move in together when the going gets tough.
The easiest thing for the US to do if Canada gets snippy is cut them off. Close the border. Put US lumberjacks back to work. Put us oilfield workers back to work. Let the automakers cry, they are no longer the drivers of the economy, and their influence on politics and policy is waning. Let Canadian taxpayers pay for their own defense against the world instead of relying on our umbrella. Canada will be Mexico in 5 years. There will be nogo muslim areas like France and Sweden. The diversity, that doesn’t even consider itself even nominally “Canadian” will balkanize the cities.
Some large percentage of that is already taking place anyway.
Canada will sell itself to the Chinese though, and then we’ll have China on our border, instead of across the ocean.
Better that we are friends, but there is a junior partner, and Canada is it.
n
I wasn’t joking. I was on the periphery of conversations with people who seemed confused about Wakanda being a fictional nation. IIRC this was shortly after Black Panther was released.
At the Mint, DEI Officials Got Transferred to New Jobs and Had Their Backgrounds Hidden
https://hotair.com/john-s-2/2025/02/28/at-the-mint-dei-officials-got-transferred-to-new-jobs-and-had-their-backgrounds-hidden-n3800295
Isn’t this great? We not only get rid of the DEI departments, but the AF’s* who defied the EO get canned and hopefully lose their pensions, too.
*Arrogant Felons works, but we all know that “felons” is at least a second-choice.
“It’s The Circle Of Memes”
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/03/01/its-the-circle-of-memes/
It is the 7th Meme.
“One year clean, and then I run into my dealer in front of the grocery store!”
Truer words were never spoken.
I have slept on a water bed regualrly since 1973. Replaced the mattress a time or two when it didn’t survive a move due to poor packing. The ability to control the temperature is a big feature.
I sense the hand of a master…
Fortunately, Disney killed “Black Panther” by refusing to recast and move on.
I stopped at a small con in Dallas over the Summer to pick up Dean Cain’s autograph on his new graphic novel. Cain was at the show to do a panel featuring five of the actors who portrayed Superman in the last 30 years, two voice and three live action.
Delusion on delusion. Canada has a free trade treaty with the USA (and Mexico), signed by the truculent yam. We don’t have any tariffs on American goods (unless there were some exceptions listed in the treaty, and I recall none). A symmetrical tariff on Canada would be NO TARIFF. So no phantom savings from Canada, which if any existed are all going to your billionaires anyways, but what you do with your money is their business.
Alberta is hardly being throttled, though the current premier likes to play the “it’s all the feds fault game” to the exclusion of all rational thought. It is hardly a new behavior for a Canadian premier. For that matter, the US cancelled Keystone XL (throttling!). The Canadian federal government (my tax dollars) and not the Alberta government, paid for an expanded pipeline to the west cost for Alberta oil. To no-ones surprise, the “female dog” in Alberta has yet to say thanks for all the additional royalty revenue that is producing. She is trying to play the victim card – poor poor Alberta, with the highest per capital income of any province in Canada, so hard done by. I know, I could cry too. 82% of all Canadians (and 72% in the western oil provinces) favour raising prices – an export tax – if the demented yam imposes tariffs and tries to exclude energy (because tariffs on oil would hurt the US). Does that sound like a populace that wants to secede? (You really have to find some additional news sources and get out of the right-wing echo chamber).
(How cute, a Lego Zamboni. The things adults still play with. Hope you secured one of the samples. It must look absolutely fabulous in your Barbie football stadium. Touche!)
Well, the China thing is an incredibly distasteful option, but Canada is not the one whose actions are making that seem like it might be a good idea. (It is really a bad idea, but it depends where the US ends up. I do think a constitutional crisis is imminent.)
Up until a month ago, we were friends (as much as countries can ever be friends), and I even agree we are (factually) the junior partner but we were partners. His whoreship, the imperial yam and his lackey wishes us to be supplicants if not vassals. Not going to happen.
Maybe it will lead to the rise of Canadian nationalism. A strong shared identity, beyond one based on NOT being something.
It’s probably important to keep in mind some lessons from history, especially recent history. Trump NEGOTIATES. He even wrote a book about it. His first offer or demand is almost never his real goal.
That his opponents’ heads explode whenever he say something is a plus as far as he’s concerned.
n
NB, it’s surprisingly difficult to find some things using google. I can’t get an answer to what goods were still subject to tariffs under NAFTA and subsequently under the agreement that expanded it (USMCA ).
I did get this AI summary
That looks a LOT like tariffs on some pretty basic goods and matches with reports here and elsewhere of Canadians loading up on certain items at US Costco near the border…
The summary for USMCA says “items not subject to tariffs under NAFTA remain free from tariffs under USMCA (2020).” Which kind of points to some items that WERE subject to tariffs under NAFTA continuing to be subject under USMCA .
So Canada used tariffs on imports to protect “supply managed sectors”, which is how tariffs work…
the ducks are a bit more useful.
Last time around Canada wasn’t shy about imposing tariffs.
https://globalnews.ca/news/10889502/donald-trump-canada-previous-retaliatory-tariffs/
n
@ Nick
I stand corrected and should have remembered (since I did post on that some weeks earlier – senior moment) that Canada has supply management in place for dairy and eggs. We traded off other items in the free-trade agreement to keep it.
With supply management (SM) you have high tariffs to protect that system. There are grumblings (internal and external) about retaining SM. SM does result in higher prices for those products. One reason for higher prices is that the production licenses are distributed to allow for smaller (family farm size) producers. That can be a good thing. US egg suppliers have farms with many millions of birds. If one gets bird flu, all the birds are destroyed – hence, your current egg shortage and crazy prices. In Canada, typical size (from a media report) is 25,000 birds, so one farm going down is not a big deal. Not what the system was designed for, but a nice feature.
No Canada wasn’t. Those were in retaliation for the tariffs the bullying yam put in place last time (on iron and aluminum specifically, I think). They were politically targeted on “red states” to get his attention. Since the vegetable wants to tariff everything this time, the Canadian response will be far greater and may include export taxes. All of which is a damn shame and disgrace. Nobody wins here.
>>Here is the shower with no door and the 2.5 foot side wall that dumps water all over the floor:
https://www.winsim.com/no_door_shower.jpg
@lynn, what, you haven’t been trained yet by SWMBO to keep the seat down?
Pearls Before Swine: Best Side For Photographs
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/02/26
Paul Simon wrote the best stuff.
>>Here is the shower with no door and the 2.5 foot side wall that dumps water all over the floor:
https://www.winsim.com/no_door_shower.jpg
@lynn, what, you haven’t been trained yet by SWMBO to keep the seat down?
Life is free when I am at the office and on the road by myself.
Beds? I have a SleepNumber air bed, and it is VERY comfortable. Formerly known as “Select Comfort”, back when Paul Harvey was flacking for them. Remember, air is a great insulator.
Pearls Before Swine: Can’t Hurry Love
https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2025/02/23
So Pig has to wade in the water to keep warm.
Between hotels and the in-law’s place, I’ve slept on a number of sleep number mattresses.. and didn’t like them. I always roll off the edge, and I can’t seem to find a number that makes much difference. The whole range seems soft to me, except when it’s too hard and rolls me to the edge…
n
leaving a virtual cloud of dust in her wake.
– like a short and chubby Road Runner…
n
Or like a short and chubby velociraptor…
The US isn’t in the habit of annexing neighbors in this millennium or much in that last, but there might end up being some compelling reasons, especially if the UK and Europe fall to a new Caliphate.
Not if, when Europe falls to the Caliphate. There are areas in the inner city of many European cities where the police no longer drive through, such as Munich.
>>An episode of the BBC show visited Ebrington Square in Northern Ireland where expert John Sandon was presented with a pair of distinct vases to evaluate.
— question for the British cousins, shouldn’t it be “ a pair of DISTINCTIVE vases to evaluate”?
It seems that an argument could be made for distinct, but I don’t think in that sentence, it’s correct.
I vote for “distinctive.”
https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/eb/qa/the-difference-between-distinct-and-distinctive
>>whooo hoooo, it’s March! Yeah, it’s not much, but it’s something
Final season of Bosch coming March 27th.
>>Final season of Bosch coming March 27th.
Another Connelly LAPD character, Renee Ballard, will be coming to replace Bosch…
https://screenrant.com/bosch-legacy-season-3-end-renee-ballard-spinoff-important/
Past bed time for me.
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