April 2025 - Toronto ON

Once again, I am stunned by how much more I could post here due to fELON 47 antics. Honestly, I am only selecting a few items weekly!
It is staggering to read what "just ordinary bloggers", that I follow, are writing.
Bohemian Valhalla - Arizona. Every post will include her own rants!
I've always previously felt Proud to be an American so this is an unsettling Feeling to be Ashamed at what we're devolving into and what a Spectacle we've become Globally. Anyway, making Good Trouble is all those of us who oppose it all can do. Civil Rights and fighting for Equality and Votes for Women and people of Color, Rights for the Disabled and the LGBTQ+ Community has been a long and grueling struggle we never gave up on and has to continue unabated. Even tho' we're going backwards by a Century in just a couple Months is more than discouraging tho', it's almost inconceivable. To lose that much Ground that fast and with so many Americans seemingly okay with it all is Mind Blowing to me. I thought we were better than that and more evolved, we apparently were not, as a collective. It is Shameful.
BootsandBraids California
A commenter said in response: My lesbian egg farmer's wife is a doctor and they applied to immigrate to Canada and were accepted. She is selling the flock and my egg prices will be going from $3 a dozen to whatever the market asks.
COMMENTS I have received from Americans in the last week. These are public, printed comments that you can find on my blog.
I am deeply ashamed of what the man I didn't vote for has done to our historic friendship with Canada. Please know that EVERYONE did not vote for him and we don't all agree with him. Your country is truly admirable. Ours used to be. We are sad and reeling--even, now, too late, many who voted for him.
I always want to tell people from other countries, it's not all of here who are crazy! So embarrassing these days....thanks to millions of voters who stayed home. Geez.
I'm with you on Musk. No one voted for him and yet he is destroying my country and trying to take over yours (and Greenland, too). I was especially pleased with Confound the Science. I would have laughed if it hadn't been so spot on.
I'm glad that Canada is standing up to the bullying by Trump. Please know that many of us (most of us?) here are furious with that man. I'm personally buying everything I can from Canada. And as little as possible from the billionaires!
Bravo to Canada for standing up to our bully-in-chief.
MEANWHILE IN CANADA
I wondered when this would happen.
Canada's BC Premier threatened tolls and possibly closure of the roads leading into Alaska against Trump's tariffs. Alaska took matters into its own hands.A resolution affirming Canada’s sovereignty and cross-border relations has passed in the Alaska state legislature.
House Joint Resolution No. 11 was introduced by house majority leader Republican Chuck Kopp, of Anchorage, on Feb. 26. As reported by the *News,* on March 14, Yukon Premier Ranj Pillai, Whitehorse Mayor Kirk Cameron and Dawson City Mayor Stephen Johnson all testified virtually to house representatives about the resolution.
The resolution was passed with 33 representatives in favour, and four against. Those four were Republicans Jamie Allard, Bill Elam, Mike Prax, and Cathy Tilton.
One representative, Republican Delena Johnson, was absent, and two representatives, Republican Sarah Vance, and Democrat Nellie Unangiq Jimmie, were excused.
Three amendments were made to the resolution before it passed.
The first stated that the House of Representatives would be opposed to any tolls, as well as measures, that “would harm the unique relationship between Canada and Alaska or negatively affect our integrated economies.”
A member of staff for representative Will Stapp, who introduced the amendment, told the News that it was in response to recent British Columbia legislation to introduce tolls.
The second amendment introduced more information into the resolution. The resolution pointed to the Alaska Highway as a critical lifeline for the movement of goods, services and people between Alaska and the rest of the U.S. through Canadian territory, and expressed concern by any threats or actions by Canada to shut down any roads into Alaska, specifically naming the Alaska Highway.
Such actions could jeopardize funding commitments, including those for the repair and maintenance of the Shakwak road, read the amendment, which was adopted in its entirety.
Uncertainty around Shakwak funding has been a point of contention in the Yukon legislature this spring, as a recent executive order by American President Donald Trump paused the disbursal of money from the funding source that provides for the maintenance of the road.
The third amendment acknowledged the rivers that flow between Canada and Alaska, and their history and importance for Indigenous governments on both sides of the border.
“Our goal is to lower the temperature and to bring healing and restoration in a relationship that we feel has been unnecessarily frayed at a time when, frankly, we can't afford that. Our nation can't afford it, and Alaska certainly can't afford it,” said representative Kopp when the News spoke with him on March 17, shortly after the bill was introduced.
“We need a strong Alaska-Canada partnership. We need a strong America-Canada partnership, and that's a partnership that's worth defending.”
With files from Dana Hatherly
Michael Live Bublé at the 2025 Juno Awards

Subject: Stood the test of time....some of these go back 2000 years
Politicians
We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev, Russian Soviet politician
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Quoted in 'Clarence Darrow for the Defence' by Irving Stone.
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton, American actor/writer
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer, "the Mark Twain of American Socialism."
I offered my opponents a deal: "if they stop telling lies about me, I will stop telling the truth about them". ~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952.
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~Texas Guinan. 19th-century American businessman
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle, French general & politician
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson (English middle-distance runner who won gold medals at the 1924 Olympic Games)
I am reminded of a joke: What happens if a politician drowns in a river? That is pollution. What happens if all of them drown? That is a solution!!!
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two are lawyers and three or more are the government. ~John Adams (1735 - 1826)
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Government. But then I repeat myself. Mark Twain (1835- 1910)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the Government and report the facts! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)
I contend that for a nation to try and tax itself into prosperity, is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. ~ Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul! ~ Will Rogers (1879- 1935)
The problem we face today is because the people that work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living. ~ George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950)
...Jackie, fabulous and Elbows Up🇨🇦.
ReplyDeleteGood ones today!! Only constructive thing I did today was order some Canadian maple syrup. (I live in....wait for it....Texas. Another accident of birth. Which could have been corrected, but apparently only for a few years in my 20's. So here I am, almost 80. Amazing.)
ReplyDeleteLoved it all!!!
ReplyDeleteI think Carney nails it, but.... not really. Many Americans want the olden days back and feel ashamed of what Trumpty Dumpty and Co want.
ReplyDeleteAs a German I can relate.
Often when in Australia or France, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico, you name it, I pretended not to be or understand German...
I hope the weirdness stops soon, hopefully world-wide.
Fantastic blog.(JJB)
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