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It's finally over.....AHHHH!

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  Oh isn't it nice to have this election over with? That noise from the south invading our northern headspace is over and done with.  The system worked in favor of, depending on your bias, the party who should have won or the party most likely to whine about losing. I'm fckin with you.  This is the democratic process at work and the irony is it might be the suspension of that same process which comes to fall on the American public because that process brought him back to the oval office a feedback loop of sorts.  Mr T cares not about the American public so his policies will be dictated by his own perspective and it's one of a CEO, whatever is good for the country at that moment and if it's good for the country it's good for the CEO.   As I have pointed out in the previous blog the d-man will behave as a populist dictator by using his office to interfere with opponents of any sort and reward handsomely his supporters. He is vindictive and holding the most po...
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Populism does it matter?

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  You have probably heard the term "populist"  but do you know what it means and how to spot it, do you think it's bad, good or really doesn't matter? Is  populism  something new? Let's define populist.  The broad definition is simply a party or leader that's for the people. Before 1892 and the presidency of  Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson you don't see the term being used but Jackson was really trying to fight for the common voter by attempting to shut down the central bank and reform or abolish the electoral college so the term "populist" fit. Unfortunately I  didn't see it used again to describe a leader of a country until Hitler.  You might be thinking wasn't the  French revolution for the people? Yes it occurred before Jackson's presidency but it wasn't a populist leader or party it was a "revolution". A violent revolution which failed and came back for a second try and of course there was the revolution i...
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The 50 Percent!

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  A smiling Justin  Trudeau  stepped up to the podium and said   " You  are sending us back to work with a clear  mandate  to get Canada through this pandemic, and to  brighter  days ahead,"  (Scott Neuman NPR sept 21/21) In 2019 62% of the population went to the poles  of those ballots cast 32% went to the Liberals so just under 25% of Canadians brought this party to power! From the numbers I do not see a "clear"  mandate from the population . M ore  votes were given to the conservatives! So how  does this work?  You don't need the most votes to lead the country?   No   you need the most seats to become the leading party in parliament and you must get at least  170 seats in order to be a majority government. So the Liberals got 160 seats and the next closest was the Conservatives    (big surprise) with 119 but the Conservatives had more votes by 1 percent yet didn't get more...
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These Times they are enragin

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 So there is a lot going on right now. From the end of Covid restrictions to the "freedom" convoy to the muscle flexing of Russia to the rapid erosion of the value of your dollar. Let's start with the "freedom" movement.  The cry went out early in the pandemic that the numbers were not right! It was Donald telling the press that the numbers of his own staff can't be right and that meme has been stuck in the gut of the internet to this day. Truthfully I even wondered about the numbers but rather than relying on cable TV or the Donald I went to sites on the web, mixed in some off shore news coverage and came away with  this: Deaths were not the really important number it was the number of cases that was the issue. It was preventing the death of tens of thousands who caught this virus but were alive only because they had a ventilator.   In year two the train was coming off the rails. It seemed as though the public was being sold a new and improved virus every c...
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The times they are enragin

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I started writing this on Oct 19 2020 and I couldn't help but think we  have so many fires in the world and a shortage of buckets! So  I'm going to look at a few of the issues which I think are important to North Americans specifically and the world in general. It'll be over a half dozen posts and this one has been very educational and that is what I aim to do educate myself.  LOL Today  I'll focus on the history of racial violence in the USA and why? Because I started to look at this subject starting with the Watts riot of 1965 and just kept going back and my lack of knowledge embarrassed me .  As  a white Canadian boy the history of the black population to the south was not in my frame of reference. The only thing I knew about black history was that the civil war freed the slaves and the modern condition of the Afro-American was shown to me through sit coms like The  Jefferson's . I had no reason to explore the inequities of blacks in America becaus...
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No Ifs Ands Or Buts

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                                  I listened to audio clips from the last debate                                                                  between President Trump                                     and                                               Vice President Biden                                                                           ...
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