My View from Mill Bay
From the Short Story Vault
The nightmare is over:
Good bye. Deliverance from evil:
America is back:
America the beautiful.
Kind of hokey but one of my favorites:
Never forget:
Congrats and good luck to our American friends. From blindness to light. One can only hope for hope is all we’ve got.
Next?
Canada? Our nightmare will soon be over as well.
Ole Joe could really play that banjo back in the day. Don’t ya think?
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An excerpt:
“Crossing an old arched bridge over a small river I took a right
and walked down a narrow country road. I stopped to look back
toward Vézelay from where I came. The sight before me was surreal.
The abbey that was perched high on the hill dominated the entire
countryside. It was covered above its belfry by black low-lying
clouds. The odd pane of whitish yellow lightning could be seen
intermittently followed by the sound of low rolling thunder. There
was something unearthly about the scene as the clouds seemed
to roll down the hill covering the buildings of Vézelay itself. They
disappeared for the moment. Perhaps a localized squall unleashed
a downpour or perhaps it was because of the transparency of the
clouds themselves? It reminded me of a scene out of Mary Shelley’s
Dr Frankenstein…I presume?
The surrounding countryside was very subdued in the early
morning light and made all the more threatening by the ghostly white
color of some of the lower storm clouds, which were predominantly
black at the higher altitude. The ground took on a dull greyish hue.
I felt the first raindrop, then a second and then many. ‘Time to get
out the poncho Jim…and now.’ Hurriedly, I dropped the rucksack
on the ground, found the zipper to the pack’s bottom compartment
and pulled out my poncho and then tried to put it on as the rain
started pelting down. I say tried for when I attempted to get the
thing over my head and my arms through the arm holes the damn
thing ripped. As the wind increased the rips blew out until my
poncho resembled torn tissue paper. Useless! I am going to get
soaked. But it did not happen for as quickly as the rain started, it
stopped, but my poncho was ruined.”
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Covid Cancer: Has a nasty ring to it don’t ya think?
Cancer is soaring, and still they deny the vaccine connection
Mark Carney is the so called, Liberal front-runner to replace Trudough. This is what he said during an interview on the Daily Show:
In response to a question from Jon Stewart about how Carney would be “left holding the carbon tax bag,” which Stewart argued was “not politically feasible,” Carney hinted that he would target the oil and gas industry with climate policy.
“Almost 30 per cent of our emissions from Canada come from the production and shipment of oil to the United States,” said Carney. “So part of it is cleaning that up, getting those emissions down, more than changing, in a very short period of time, the way Canadians live.”
DEI is DIE on the order table and will be the death of us all if we allow it to continue unabated by the elites. Canadians?
Don’t think Canada is ruled by the Family Compact?
Right now in Liberal-land we have:
Liberal Caucus, Liberal Prime Minister, Liberal Cabinet, Liberal Press, Liberal Media, Liberal Judiciary, Liberal Academia, Liberal Culture – well just about everything Liberal. Read up on the 1837 revolts in Canada and what caused them. Their aftermath? Upper (Ontario) and Lower (Quebec) united to become Canada. New Brunswick and Nova Scotia followed suit but not officially until 1867. Ontario and Quebec became what we know of today as Canada and today, like in 1840, Ontario and Quebec run the Canadian show. Actually Quebec runs Canada by its proxy in Ottawa. The West doesn’t exist in their minds and the Maritimes? Canada’s innocent, naïve playground.
Trudeau 2.0. Mark my Carney words: he is unelectable and will go down in flames in the next election.
Also, Carney considers himself to be European. He is a board member of the World Economic Forum. He holds Canadian, UK and Irish passports. Pick a side Mr. Carney.
https://x.com/i/status/1879197476890284195
As former finance minister Chrystia Freeland prepares to launch a Liberal leadership bid, a source close to her [that would be Freeland] says scrapping the controversial consumer carbon tax will be one of her policy planks.
“She is ready to make difficult decisions to meet our emissions targets and make sure big polluters pay for their outsized emissions. But she will not fight Canadians on a policy they have been clear, they do not support,” the source tells CTV News. “That’s why Chrystia Freeland will replace the consumer carbon price with a system that will work within our federation and will be developed collaboratively with provinces and territories.”
Meaning, the consumer still pays the carbon tax. Why??
she thinks Canadians are idiots.
Yesss. I love vegetarians and vegans. Why?
Have you ever met or seen a happy environmentalist? Protester? Or a contented vegan? No? Me neither.
Oh, in tribute and respect for LA’s DEI driven Fire Department I offer this:
And…the Babylon Bee offers this in response:
One of the best songs from a very great but underrated band: Collective Soul. Lead guitar solo here is awesome. Makes one wanna rock…forever!
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Here is a visual definition of a hypocrite. Trudeau prorogued parliament at the same time that he resigned as leader. Oh he is still Prime Minister until such time as the Liberal Party of Canada elects a new leader. That leader automatically becomes Prime Minister and will have to take the Liberal Party into the next election. Then they will be annihilated and Trudough can ride off into the sunset with an unblemished electoral legacy. Meanwhile his replacement will have the Kim Campbell millstone around his neck for the rest of his or her political days. Creton (sic) did the same, as did Brian Mulroney, as did Pierre Trudough. Their reliefs and Party then fell on their electoral swords.
BTW, for our international friends “proroguement” is a Canadian political tool to end the session of a parliament by an order of the sovereign, thus deferring its business and mitigating a non confidence motion, which terminates the sitting government and avoids an erection. In other words it buys time for Trudough and the Liberals to get their shyte together and get one up on the opposition. It is entirely undemocratic and should be abolished.
What a fool. The fool on the parliament hill.
And with his best butt, Gerald Butts.
Heard in passing: the Canadian peso, erm dollar, is all about worthless now. Who is to blame? Lizard people-man of Canada that’s who – oh and Gerald Butts has had a hand in destroying the Canadian economy too, butt from behind the scenes, as all butts do. Shyte happens.
Another sad bit of reality. Amazon is destroying small businesses in small town Canada. We are all guilty of this if death to the small Canadian town should occur. And it will. I am guilty of it too as I use Amazon on line shopping all the time – but not for shoes though.
Also, dining out. Restaurants are shuttering. Who is to blame for this? Hiking the minimum wage to $17-$22 bucks an hour is certainly a contributing factor . On top of that the staff still expects its 18-25% range in tips. Don’t know about you but I always go for the “other” on those pay machines. Normally 10% and no more. On top of everything else our government, at all levels, demand their pound of flesh in ever increasing taxes. This is insane. Result? My wife and I never, ever go out for dinner anymore. If we dine out it is normally for breaky or lunch. Much better value and it doesn’t break the bank of home.
This is a great video. Trigger warning to those Canadians suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome…probably half of the Canadian population. It is long but very interesting.
This song came out in the mid 60s when UK taxes forced many successful Brits to flee the country. Here it is some 60 years on and our government still hasn’t learned their financial and economic lessons. The more you tax the less revenue you bring in.
Big Fat Mama is big government.
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Oh, by the way, Canada’s first and third Prime Minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, was born 210 years ago today (Saturday, 11 January).
Today we should honor the man for achieving Confederation, creating the Dominion of Canada, and uniting the nation from coast to coast with the Canadian Pacific Railway.
My personal favorite Canadian national anthem. In the Navy we marched to this many times (along with Heart of Oak). It sent chills up the spine and brought a proud tear to the eye. Reaction was way more emotional than Oh Canada. The vets marched to his tune during WW1
I am proud of my heritage. Every person that lives in this country, in every region, must be treated equally. Until that happens we can be sure of one thing: continued chaos and societal breakdown.
2025: End the Canadian madness.
Remember this?
(Trudeau) “These people do not represent the views of Canadians.”
Oh really?
Great Canadian Freedom Convoy.
This is why Trudeau is fooked.
Like a good narcissist, he resigned but sort of. We still have to put up with him for another few months. Trudeau can now claim that he won three elections and was never defeated. That defeat of a grand scale which is sure to come will be left to the new leader to absorb: a new leader who will have a Kim Campbell legacy to live with for the rest of his or her days. If I was a Liberal MP I wouldn’t touch a Liberal leadership convention with the Peace Tower flag pole. I would either demand an election now with the incumbent in charge or leave him in power until the election has to be called and let him ride out the electoral storm.
Let’s bring our pride in country back.
