It's cold here, really cold. So cold that the garage door won't open without a manual assist from a large man, so Jack and I used the front door instead. School buses were cancelled, so all the parents were driving their kids to school and the line up for drop off stretched back 2 km.
It's too cold to walk the dogs, or do much of anything outside, so Jack built a target range for us. It was actually a lot of fun and I'm a pretty good shot (with a nerf gun).
Colder than trump's heart, outside this morning.
We had a fair bit of snow this past week so they're plowing again. For anyone who wonders why our roads are so wide, this is why; because in the winter, we have something called windrows of plowed snow.
I am so sorry for all my American friends who have been caught up in the ugly chaos that has been rained down on their country. It seems that Project 2025 was intent on getting trump into office, so that they could have a puppet who would do their bidding. trump is too stupid to understand what he's doing and will do whatever they want, as long as they stroke his ego.
There was an article in Forbes a few days ago, looking at the facts behind trump's claims that Canada has allowed millions of illegal immigrants across the border, and that fentanyl is pouring into the US from Canada. These are his "reasons" for slapping a 25% tariff on Canadian goods, fentanyl and illegal immigrants. If it smells like shit and looks like shit, it's probably bullshit.
In fact, in 2024, 17.6 lbs of fentanyl was seized being smuggled into the US from Canada, while 10.8 lbs of fentanyl were seized being smuggled into Canada from the US.
As for illegal immigrants, more people crossed illegally from the US into Canada, than from Canada, into the US, in 2023.
But lets not cloud the issue with facts. The only good thing to come out of all this fuckery, is it has united Canada and Canadian premiers (with the exception of course of our own dimwitted premier), in a way that I have not seen before. Canadians are proud to be Canadians and have no desire to emulate their neighbor to the south.
I stole this from Debra at She Who Seeks, thank you Debra. It's so true, and not just about trump.
Here's some light reading about Germany in 1936.
