What am I missing?

So, Trump paid Stormy Daniels money.  So what?  What is the problem?  Is it a crime to give someone money?  Their interactions were private, were they not?  Frankly, the more the government goes after Trump, the higher will be his popularity. 

Ms. Daniels and her client.

He could have saved himself millions by just letting the whole thing slide and the chips fall.  No one cares, except those who want to "get" him.  They're focused on "porn wars", to quote Kevin O'Leary -- not the disasters unfolding in the US under Biden:  Open borders, inflation at 19%, the ballooning of crime, etc., etc.  Prosecutors can't even explain properly what the "crime" he supposedly committed was!?  

I know it's fashionable and de rigeur to vilify Trump -- especially with the liberal, leftist media,  but I don't have a problem with the guy.  Remember, he is the only president in living memory who didn't start a war and he's the one who brought the troops out of that useless graveyard called Afghanistan.  He'll also build that wall which will prevent so many illegals from travelling on up to Canada, where we will have to pay for them.

Hundreds of Canadian soldiers were killed in Afghanistan for absolutely no reason.  The place has reverted back to its perpetual medieval state, with women shoved underground or in caves and war lords back in the drug business.  Children are starving, so their mothers give them heroin to dull their hunger.  I saw a documentary about it and I literally cried seeing toddlers taking heroin.  It's all so sad.  Wish I hadn't watched it because I can't unwatch it.

Reminds me of the hysteria that erupted when Nigel Wright gave Mike Duffy $90,000 for legal fees over something and everyone went insane.  I still don't get what the problem with that was?  Now, Duffy is a very successful motivational speaker.  Good for him.

Duffy, his benefactor Wright and PM Harper, who gave him a Senate seat.

Speaking of sex, watched 'Spacey Unmasked' on Prime or Netflix and was appalled.  The guy is a sexual predator who has evaded prosecution, in spite of the testimony of the scores of men who had been molested by him over the years.  They interviewed many of them who had been groped or abused when they were high school students and others on the sets of many of his films.  He did it because he could.  That's the basic story in the whole, sordid mess.  

Spacey in better days.

I'm sad because he is a great actor and now has been disappeared forever.  'House of Cards' was never the same without him.  May he Rest in Peace.    

If there was a point, I missed it

I'm talking about the foreign interference "inquiry" into just who was meddling in federal elections.  According to Justice Marie-Josée Hogue's report, we don't really know.  Probably it was China.  Maybe it was India.

Hogue having a chuckle

Really?  Millions spent and all she concludes is that, "perhaps there was meddling" and "it is likely to increase and may have negative consequences" and that "alerting the public might have been too slow" and that CSIS "might have been so secretive it didn't share what Canadians needed to know" and "it is possible that results in a small number of ridings were affected, but this cannot be said with certainty".

The key words are "perhaps, maybe and might".  That's ludicrous.  In the end, she reported nothing, so what was the point?  

Andrew Coyne, not my favourite columnist as you know, actually made a good point when he wrote that Hogue was unable to draw any conclusions about Trudeau's failure to take action or follow up.  "I am not certain what steps were taken," said Hogue.

She concludes by saying, "Further study is required before I can make definitive recommendations."  She also has not answered the biggest question about what the prime minister knew, when he knew it and what he did about it?

The answer is that of course he did nothing because China wanted the Liberals to get elected and Trudeau knew it.  That's what he knew and that's what he cared about.  And Hogue, appointed by Trudeau, would not dare to call him out on his deceptions; afterall, that's where her bread is buttered.

As we drift ever further into the dark abyss the Liberals have created, I fear they might actually get re-elected and we will remain led by a narcissistic, bully and tyrant.

Gawd help us all.

    

You are antisemitic

That's what a Jewish acquaintance accused B of being a few years ago.  His crime?  She had asked him what he thought the wars in the Middle East were all about.  "Real estate," he replied.

He, of course, was right, but she immediately accused him of being antisemitic and walked off in a huff.  See, that's the problem.  You analyze anything going on over there with any logic or reality and immediately you're labelled an antisemite.

I thought universities were about learning and informed, objective debating.  Guess not.  The mobs at McGill are made up of professional disrupters and students from other schools.  Mostly pro-Palestinian and rabidly anti-Jewish, they indicate just how alive and well antisemitism remains, bubbling under the surface, ready to emerge at any excuse.

The whole thing is being funded by Qatar, Iran and George Soros!  The students have issued a set of demands that include food, medical supplies and the assurance that no one will be charged or arrested.  This is insane!

Antisemitic mob rule 

I find that very disturbing.  Were I the president, I would ensure every protester was failed because obviously, they are not attending class and presumably not handing in assignments.  I would also do what the Americans are doing and arrest a few hundred.  

But not Deep Saini, McGill's president.  Do I dare mention that Saini is from an ethnic culture and therefore prone to avoiding any hint of cracking down and enforcing law and order on private property?  No, I daren't.

Deep Saini

And do I dare mention that the head of the students society, Risann Wright, is also an Arab and therefore anti-Israeli?  No, I daren't.

Risann Wright

But with these two in charge, why are we surprised?  As I always say, you have to pull back the curtain and look into who's running an organization to discover the agenda.  That'll tell you everything.  

Ottawa U is also deluged with sit-ins, but president Jacques Frémont will do nothing because he has spent his career advocating for human rights all over the world.  Expect that mess to continue indefinitely.  

Frémont with his buddy, the odious Trudeau.

Only if they have money

I regularly frequent the only Dim Sum restaurant in Northwest Calgary and I love looking around and studying the Chinese culture, embodied in the families there.  What I have observed is that, unlike our culture, Chinese families include three generations when they dine out -- regardless of the mobility, or lack thereof, of ancient or handicapped members.

"Why do Chinese women marry Caucasian men, but Chinese men do not marry Caucasian women?" I asked one of my regular servers.  "They are only permitted to marry outside their race if the woman has money," she told me.  So there you have it:  A complete analysis of Chinese family mores.

I guess that means that a Chinese woman who marries a Caucasian has money, otherwise that pairing would be prohibited too.  How sensible, I thought.

Speaking of the Chinese, we are watching a fabulous series on Netflix called 'American Rust'.  It's about a derelict midwestern US town decimated by the collapse of the steel and manufacturing industries.  Drugs have replaced everything and everyone is on them.  Starring Jeff Daniels, he of the marvelous 'Dumb and Dumber movies, the show made me think that the Chinese don't have to go to conventional or nuclear warfare with the US, they are doing it just as successfully with fentanyl.  

How brilliant!  The Chinese own every drug manufacturing company going and they are successfully killing the West with their products.  Think about it, folks.  That's what's happening.

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On a cleaner note, I have discovered that I am not alone in my love of clotheslines.  I have joined the 'A World of Washing' facebook group, where I enjoy postings and paintings of laundry flapping in breezes around the world.  I love my clothesline and so, apparently, do millions around the world. 

I am part of the 31,500 members of this group who share our love of this old-fashioned, low-tech, green household appliance:

Laundry day in Naples

Another beautiful painting of laundry lines.

Magnificent painting

My own line last summer.