Extra Wry - with a twist!

Oh, Canada... please get serious about Wood Buffalo National Park 🎝🎝🎝

2019-06-14T10:30:00.000-04:00

And, while you're at it, please stop calling it Wood Buffalo... there are no indigenous buffalo in Canada, only bison... so let's rename the park Wood Bison National Park.

Anyone even remotely interested in environmental issues cannot help but be deeply disappointed with Canada's thus far weak-kneed commitments to save the almost 45,000 square kilometers of grasslands, wetlands, and waterways, the world's only breeding ground for endangered whooping cranes and home to the world's largest herd of free-ranging wood bison (please, not buffalo).

If you agree, please share these links.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/canada-plan-for-wood-buffalo-not-enough-un-says-1.5174491?cmp=newsletter-news-digests-north

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45CuH-QZ1i4

Hitler a nice guy?? Soldiers of Odin not a threat??

2019-06-13T11:08:00.000-04:00

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/soldiers-of-odin-dawson-creek-1.5166422?cmp=newsletter-news-digests-edmonton

Pay attention to these comments by the local RCMP detachment extracted from the above CBC News report:
"Over the year that they've been operating in Alberta, there has been no indication of any kind of criminal element associated [with] that group."
"There also has been no criminal element associated with the self-proclaimed members that are within Dawson Creek right now."

Also, according to the article, community leaders have been silent and the City's response is evolving.

I highlighted the RCMP extractions from the news report to make the following point:
To me, what they are saying is there was no criminal element associated with groups like Nazis or ISIS.
NO! because they were/are the criminal element just as groups like The Soldiers of Odin are the criminal element. Remain vigilant, people of Dawson Creek, people of Alberta, people of Canada, people of the world. Don't get caught in the slick propaganda traps of these inherently violent and dangerous racist groups.

Read about Odin. Ask yourself why this group identifies as Soldiers of Odin? Form your own opinion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin

https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/odin/

"As a war-god, Odin is principally concerned not with the reasons behind any given conflict or even its outcome, but rather with the raw, chaotic battle-frenzy (one of the primary manifestations of óðr) that permeates any such struggle."

Silk Stalkings??

2019-06-12T10:45:00.000-04:00

My view: Installing Stalkerware should be illegal. Violators: individuals and manufacturers should be liable for invasion of privacy, harassment, and in extreme cases, assault causing bodily harm and possibly murder.
My question: Why do police refuse to investigate complaints? Why do we not mandate police investigation?

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/stalkerware-cellphone-abuse-women-citizen-lab-1.5171458?cmp=newsletter-news-digests-canada-and-world-morning

The s**t hits the fan on Fifth Avenue.

2016-10-08T15:39:00.002-04:00

Yesterday, a damning tape of a disgusting conversation between DT and BB hit the TV airwaves. DT's camp says Muslims, Migrants, Media, and, oh yes, Misogynism are to blame.

Pickpockets!

2016-10-08T15:10:00.000-04:00

Employers who don't pay their employees a living wage or fail to provide health benefits are sticking their hands into our pockets. We the people make up the difference.

2016-10-08T14:53:00.003-04:00

Loopy

2016-10-04T14:53:00.000-04:00

Remember, every dollar not paid in taxes because of loopholes is another dollar we the people have to pony up.

GOP and WAR

2014-03-21T12:19:00.002-04:00

If McCain, Bolton, and Cruz wannabes and think-a-likes ran this country, we'd be up to our asses in war faster than you can say WMD and Niger yellow cake.

CRIMEA?

2014-03-17T15:13:00.003-04:00

Is it one letter too many, or is it one letter short of a word jumble for a great country? For sure, it is a disaster of diplomacy.

2013-03-05T19:31:00.003-05:00

The Bible - Part II
So, Jesus's older brother, Larry ...

The Brian Lehrer Show - NPR

The Bible, Revised

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Hal Taussig, founding member of the Jesus Seminar, professor atUnion Theological Seminary, edited and provided commentary for A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts, talks about the "new" edition of Christianity's New Testament and how the selections were made.

2013-03-05T19:17:00.003-05:00

New motto for Congress Yes we can't.

My thought for today.

2012-09-08T11:41:00.002-04:00

Walk softly, and carry a big brain.

CBC Censorship

2011-08-31T14:01:00.000-04:00

Why should CBC publish a story for all to see, then, in its sole opinion, decide to prevent comment? Are we not capable? Are we not smart enough? Either don't publish, or open all stories for comment. No more censoring public opinion.

Palin wants Obama to keep working, no vacation.

2011-08-19T10:45:00.000-04:00

I can understand that. Palin and like thinking Republicans need Obama to keep working. Good news, he is. To produce, small people need to be in their office, Obama is the office.

S&P Preemptive Strike

2011-08-18T18:52:00.000-04:00

Did S&P downgrade U.S. debt rating because it knew it was a target of investigation?

Wall Street Turds

2011-08-04T13:32:00.001-04:00

The similarity in these two word is rather telling, don't you think, in that they both rather neatly describe what Wall Street bankers have done to us.

Usage: Wall Street bankers have defalcated with the country's money, and become filthy rich while defecating on we, the people.

defalcate: To misuse funds; to embezzle.

defecate:

to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement

Thanks to Dictionary.com for the definitions.

Investment Bank Collusion?

2011-08-01T16:45:00.000-04:00

Will investment banks collude to drive up the cost of U.S. government debt? Why might they do that? 1. To improve returns for their clients. 2. To bet against lower rates. Remember, when they foresaw collapse of mortgage markets, they bet against their clients, and remember too, that investment banks caused a large part of our current sad state of affairs. None are in jail. All are rich beyond rich.

Buy a Vowel.

2011-08-01T16:28:00.000-04:00

If investment banks were able to pay ratings agencies for Triple A ratings on mountains of garbage euphemistically called Collateralized Debt Obligations, surely the United States Government can purchase a Triple A rating for its debt obligations.

U.S. Credit Rating

2011-07-29T09:24:00.001-04:00

Can't the government simply pay the ratings services for a triple A rating, the same way that the investment banks paid for a triple A rating on their mortgage securities?

Coincidence?

2011-07-26T11:53:00.000-04:00

Congress and constipation start with the same three letters. Coincidence? I think not.

Breaking News!

2011-07-25T20:14:00.002-04:00

Washington Breaks Wind.

Really Bad Joke: John Edwards for President?

2010-01-21T11:49:00.002-05:00

Now that he's officially a lying scuzzball, did we dodge a bullet, or what? How many firsts did we avoid? First unwed mother? First bastard child, although I hardly think it fair to call the child the bastard. What would he have done to his love child had he been elected? Remember the movie: Absolute Power? Scary, isn't it? He lied to us, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, not politician lies, but real people-to-people lies. He should be banned from ever holding public office at any level ever again.

World Population Density

2010-01-21T10:59:00.008-05:00

According to Delanceyplace.com, six hundred years ago, somewhere around 1400, the population of the earth was 350 million, or slightly more than the current population of the United States. Most lived on just 4.25 million square miles, or barely 7 percent of the earth's dry land, that portion being the most suitable for agriculture. Those densely populated regions of earth corresponded to just fifteen highly developed civilizations, the most notable being (from east to west) Japan, Korea, China, Indonesia, Indonesia, Indochina, the Islamic West Asia, Europe, Aztec, and Inca.Today, 70 percent of the world's six billion people live on those same 4.25 million square miles.

According to my calculations, that results in 82 people per square mile in 1400 and 988 people per square mile today. By comparison, today New York City has about 400 people per square mile. In 1400, my guess is New York City (though it hadn't yet been so named) had about 40 (probably of the Lenape persuasion) people per square mile, and who knows how many when the Europeans started poking around with some vigor two hundred years later.

Question for today.

2010-01-03T11:32:00.003-05:00

Who owns your vote?

Quote of the Week

2007-05-23T09:09:00.000-04:00

Hell is war. W. Allan McLeod, March 2005