Is there no one else?

Well, here we are.  This woman just keeps getting recycled into yet another political trough post.  Now Louise Arbour has been named governor general.  She has been in every international post I can think of and now she lands as GG.  Nice gig!

It's me, Louise Arbour.  Again!

As I said, is there no one else?

Well, she's certainly bilingual, which was a problem for Simon, who claimed she was bilingual -- just not in Canada's two official languages.  Arbour is also a career champion of human rights, so that'll be fun.  We're already awash in legal fights over refugee claims and human rights cases, so expect more of the same from Arbour.  Two of her daughters are NDPers and have run for election.  Guess from whence come their woke politics?  

There are a lot of yahoos on line who say we should abolish the vice regal position.  They, of course, don't know the Canadian constitution.  To do so, the entire document would have to be thrown aside and re-written.  It would also need the approval of the Senate, the House of Commons and two thirds of provincial legislatures, representing at least 50 percent of the entire population.

As I said, never gonna happen.

So folks, we have another female, DEI francophone lawyer.  Carney has destroyed the Canadian economy (Note to self:  Never get a PhD in economics), forced millions into poverty and food banks and continues to weaken posts like that of the GG.  Welcome to Europe, er, I mean Canada!

  

WTH !!??

Would someone please tell me why Carney is in Armenia to meet with European heads of government??!!  We do a measly $24 million annually with Armenia, that's it!  We need deals worth billions with the U.S!

There he goes again, off to somewhere other than the U.S.  Who's he waving to?  The baggage handlers?

His snobbery and elitism will be the ruination of Canada.  He is no more Canadian than the average guy in Timbuktu.  His entire family lives in New York!  He needs to wake up and stay home, or travel to the U.S. and support all the provincial premiers trying desperately to do deals with them.

But, no.  He thumbs his nose at Trump with all his useless trips -- 17 to 25 countries so far, yet hasn't set foot in most parts of Canada!  Time to kiss the ring of the U.S. president for the benefit of our struggling country.

He has ministers who can travel and meet counterparts who can actually make deals.  Why does he have to be the only one travelling?  Oh ya, the hubris of an insecure kid from Fort Smith who loves the limos, the private government plane, the servants and the fawning.

The guy should be run out of town, with Champagne tied to his bumper!

Sorry for all the exclamation points, but this really riles me, while ill-informed Canadians fall for his hijinks!  Show a little pride in this country, renovate the once-magnificent 24 Sussex, move in and stick to your "net zero" pledge by parking our jet for a while.

Gawd help us all!

A complete botch-up

Or was it?  "Every time someone calls the Secret Service incompetent, I hear the word "conspiracy"," said Mark Groubert on 'America's Untold Stories', a YouTube podcast into which I tune regularly.

Groubert is an investigative journalist, who has uncovered various conspiracies, including the one allegedly orchestrated by LBJ to have Kennedy killed.  That one is very compelling and I urge you to have a gander.

According to Groubert, the latest attempt on Trump's life at the Whitehouse Correspondents' Dinner was no accident.  Most SS agents detest Trump and seem to go out of their way to allow him to be assassinated.    

This was attempt number three.  Apparently, the agents didn't apprehend Cole Allen; they were looking at their phones when he simply tripped on his own shoelaces.  And, in spite of firing off several point-blank rounds, none of the agents managed to hit him.  They were firing at each other.  Keystone Cops anyone?  As with the golf course attempt, the area was wide open and again, five rounds missed the shooter entirely.

An agent looking at his phone, instead of at the scene.

The magnetometer was in the process of being dismantled when Allen simply jumped over it and fled in.  And why, asks Groubert, wasn't the detector at the front door of the hotel?  Why was it just at the entrance to the ballroom?  During the whole episode, hotel guests simply wandered in and out at will.  Security was basically non-existent.  "Anyone could have come in and done anything," he adds.  

First and foremost, of course, is that SS head Sean Curran needs to be fired immediately.  Groubert also says that the entire Protection Branch of the SS needs to be replaced with a small, military unit -- such as the Navy Seals or the Green Berets.  Another question he asks is why Vance and Trump, along with the top seven in the line of succession, were on the same dais at the same event.  "The president and the vice president are never to be at the same event," he points out.

The only protection officer who did his job was the one assigned to Vance.  That guy just yanked him, while the one assigned to Trump started having a discussion with him.  "That's an absolute no-no," said Groubert.

All good questions.  It's fascinating stuff and I'm becoming convinced there are a lot of people, whose job it is to protect Trump, who aren't really trying.