Shiftless2
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"liter" or "leader"??
For my Canadian friends
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In the case of 80 proof, unmistakably "liter".
In the case of Trump, perhaps neither?
A bad propeller?
mal·a·prop·ism (mălə-prŏp-ĭz′əm)
n.
1. Ludicrous misuse of a word, especially by confusion with one of similar sound.
mal′a·propi·an (-prŏpē-ən) adj.
Word History: "She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile" and "He is the very pineapple of politeness" are two of the absurd pronouncements from Mrs. Malaprop that made her name synonymous with ludicrous misuse of language. A character in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play The Rivals (1775), Mrs. Malaprop habitually uses words that are malapropos—that is, inappropriate, as in allegory for alligator and pineapple for pinnacle. She makes some of her most outrageous blunders while boasting of her eloquence: "If I reprehend any thing in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!" For such memorable abuses of the language, Mrs. Malaprop has been enshrined in the words malaprop and malapropism.
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Besides, in Canada it's spelled "litre".
Bit of trivia - when I was in high school I remember teachers getting upset if we spelled in as litre. Told us in no uncertain terms that was the French spelling and we should be using liter. But somewhere along the line things changed ....
Bit of trivia - when I was in high school I remember teachers getting upset if we spelled in as litre. Told us in no uncertain terms that was the French spelling and we should be using liter. But somewhere along the line things changed ....
Spelling kind of an "issue" up there.
A SHOT OF WHISKEY
In the old west a .45 cartridge for a six-gun cost 12 cents, so did a glass of whiskey.
If a cowhand was low on cash he would often give the bartender a cartridge in exchange for a drink.
This became known as a "shot" of whiskey.
I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.
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Don't forget color v colour or flavor v flavour or ......
Spelling:
Aluminum v Aluminium.
Perhaps worst of all, Trump v Carney. That's a spell even a witch can't break.
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Conservatives are losing their minds over a trade deal with China, and it perfectly exposes how unserious their economic thinking has become.
Let’s be clear about one thing up front: Canada already trades with China. This isn’t new. What’s new is Conservatives pretending that managed engagement is somehow worse than chaos, retaliation, and exporters being locked out of markets because Ottawa refused to pick up the phone.
They want Canadians to believe that talking to China equals surrender. That is nonsense. Trade is not trust. Trade is leverage, access, and rules. Refusing to engage doesn’t make ...
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BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney throws down the gauntlet to Trump and announces that his country will defend Greenland against any American invasion.
Our closest ally was just forced to announce the unthinkable...
"The future of Greenland is a decision for Greenland and for the Kingdom of Denmark," Carney stated at a press conference. "We are NATO partners with Denmark and so our full partnership stands, our obligations on Article 5, Article 2 of NATO stand and we stand four-square behind those."
Article 5 of the NATO charter demands that member nations treat an attack on one as an attack on all. In other words, if Trump attacks Greenland, Canada will treat that as an attack on Canada and respond in kind.
Just as noteworthy as Carney's remarks themselves was the location where they were delivered. He delivered them in Beijing, having concluded ....
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The final sentence of that article is worth highlighting
Or in a single word: "paradise", Trump style.
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The conservatives carrying on about Canada trade deal with China saying it’s a threat and we should have made a deal with trump.
The biggest threat to Canada is the current iteration of the conservatives led by Pierre
The biggest threat to Canada is the current iteration of the conservatives led by Pierre
This may or may not be true. BUT !
it might be more persuasive with authoritative attribute. As is it's an anonymous assertion.
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The Reuters/Ipsos poll, released Wednesday, found that just 17 percent of respondents support a U.S. takeover of the Danish territory. [Greenland]
Similar story on Canada, Venezuela, Panama, & Minnesota.
Similar story on Canada, Venezuela, Panama, & Minnesota.
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"Fake." ~ Trump, on polls showing strong opposition in the U.S. to his threat to seize Greenland
It's a satirical cliché, no matter how robustly healthy you feel, if a room full of your friends tell you you're sick, you lie down.
A planet-full of sensible observers are sounding the alarm on this dangerous convicted felon.
And those whose professional responsibility it is to respond effectively ... crickets chirp, and Greenland and NATO prepare for War against the United States of America.
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BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers an astonishing eulogy for the end of American dominance thanks to Donald Trump: "This bargain no longer works."
It's rare that a world leader speaks so candidly about how the world really functions. This speech will be studied in the history books...
"We knew the story of the international rules-based world order was partially false, that the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient, that trade rules were enforced asymmetrically," Carney said during an address at the Davos World Economic Forum. "And we knew that international law applied with varying rigor depending on the identity of the accused or the victim."
"This fiction was useful and American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security, and support for frameworks for resolving disputes," he continued. "So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality. This bargain no longer works."
"Let me be direct, we are in the midst of a rupture not a transition," said Carney. "Over the past two decades a series of crises in finance, health, energy, and geopolitics have laid the bare risks of extreme global integration."
"But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons," he said, clearly referring to Trump. "Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructures as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration when
integration becomes the source of your subordination."
Carney's analysis offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the post-World War II order. Western nations, led by the United States, created a sophisticated network of global institutions and rules that privileged their interests, often at the expense of developing nations. It was a flawed system that nonetheless brought peace, stability, and prosperity to the nations that it was created to benefit.
"The multilateral institutions on which the middle powers have relied, the WTO, the U.N., the COP, the very architecture of collective problem solving are under threat," Carney said.
"And as a result many countries are drawing the same conclusions, that they must develop greater strategic autonomy in energy, food, critical minerals, in finance and supply chains," he continued. "And this impulse is understandable, a country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself has few options.
When the rules no longer protect you, you must protect yourself."
Carney was driving at a hard truth that MAGA refuses to acknowledge. Despite what Trump thinks, European nations haven't been content to accept a kind of vassal state status simply because they're scared of the United States. They've gone along with the world that America designed because it directly benefited them in concrete ways. Now that Trump is stripping away those benefits, they're going to begin decoupling economically and strategically from the United States. Canada's massive recent trade deal with China proves that.
The problem is that Donald Trump and his MAGA supporters are too ignorant and paranoid to understand that the system they're destroying helps them. They take for granted the American dollar's status as the global reserve currency. Once these hidden pillars that hold up the world start crumbling, quality of life in the U.S. will plummet.
"But let's be clear-eyed about where this leads. A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable and there's another truth..." Carney continued. "If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate."
"Hegemons cannot continually monetize their relationships. Allies will diversify to hedge against uncertainty. They'll buy insurance, increase options in order to rebuild sovereignty, sovereignty that was once grounded in rules but will increasingly be anchored in the ability to withstand pressure."
There is no putting this genie back in the bottle. Thanks to the stupidity, pettiness, and egomania of Donald Trump, America has been hurled into a dangerous new status quo. The rest of the world will never trust us in the same way again, but if we can remove him from power and vote in Democrats, we can at least set about undoing some of the damage.
The future is uncertain, but what is certain is that our country will only survive if Democrats are the ones at the wheel.
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