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[Wheels]

Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76

If only he had died under an eclipse on a Saturday.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

If y

I agree with that, my current partner (longest relationship I had, going on 13 years) is the most loving, caring person I have ever been with.

She is also my type, much younger, tall, blonde and athletic.

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If you're lucky she'll hold her age as well as my Cathy. Here she was age 49 a couple months before the MVA that took her. Not bad!

 

[Ridge Runner]

Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76

Condolences to his family, friends, and fans.

 

[Aaron N]

Ozzy Osbourne dead at 76

Maybe, if it’s not to late,
To learn how to love,
And forget how to hate.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

Andrew Tate is a fairly kookie guy with a lot of opinions most people disagree with. Nonetheless, regarding the fact that most American single woman are delusional is irrefutable. So too the fact that women hit their peak in the sexual marketplace between age 23-27 whereas men hit their peak in the sexual marketplace between 38-48.

A stereotypical 40-something single woman is about worthless, same for many of the married ones. If you find a gem and build a quality life consider yourself unbelievably lucky. (I'm in the lucky, yet statistically improbable group)

Don't believe me as to how depraved the younger females have become? The average 23 year old woman today has had more sexual partners than the average 53 year old female. Think about that for a minute.

Andrew Tate is generally correct about women, generally incorrect about what a good male should do about it. (he says love them and leave them, use them, etc)

Sorry I have a hard time taking your opinion seriously anymore given your proclivities to incline toward conspiracy theories

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

 

[Ridge Runner]

“Socio-economic status matters to women.” Ya think?! More to some than others, I suppose. When a woman tells her lady friends that she’s dating someone new, their first question is inevitably, “what does he do.” When a guy tells his buddies he has a new gal, they inevitably ask, “Got a picture?!”

For the females you nailed it!

For the guys....uuhhhmmm...it's more like "What she look like?". Followed by: "Where, How did you meet her?", then ".... inevitably, "You gotta picture?", and "Does she have a sister?".

 

[mdwest]

Is it a strike out?

What is it we want from Canada right now that the US isn’t getting?

What is the ambassador doing that Rubio, his boss, doesn’t 100% support?

Lutnick and Bessent are both advocating even stronger measures to push Canada to open markets, which includes further tariffs.

All of the economic gloom and doom predicted on the economy as a result of taking positions that pushed Canada, Mexico, and the EU have proven false. The economy is booming.

And no one in the Trump administration cares about hurt feelings… not Carneys, not Canadian citizens, not yours..

It would appear the ambassador is doing exactly what his boss and the rest of the administration wants him to do.. keep putting the screws to the Canadian government… and if they don’t like it, screw them… if it hurts feelings, so what?

Rubio has pretty much said the same things Lutnick and Bessent has said.. open markets, or deal with the consequences… this isn’t the Biden administration anymore…

Bank of Canada reports a softer economy in Canada due to the shift in policy (albeit not sharply weaker)

The impact of US trade policy on jobs and inflation in Canada

Governor Tiff Macklem discusses how the trade conflict with the United States has affected the Canadian economy. He explains that restoring open trade is critical for jobs and growth, and important for prices and inflation.

www.bankofcanada.ca

While the WSJ, reports the US economy is trucking right along despite the issues with Canada

https://www.wsj.com/economy/the-u-s-economy-is-regaining-its-swagger-922623e3?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=ASWzDAjF4P4mFt_FOz02XdMM8pjqwAbc-1wlphYnNg-hR-uqY1oSfbLd5nDa&gaa_ts=687f80bb&gaa_sig=Z6bPkCy4JcHzqAdmSjRq40n9869iqja1Nt13rfC3mJuD0NKCTSpKeXcOkU_1IZCKalyy6dy4juenpeeweNyfKQ%3D%3D

Doubling down on this earlier post...

To be further clear about how all of the gloom and doom, wringing of hands, and gnashing of teeth over tariffs and how the Canadians were going to kill the US economy if Trump had his way...

The DOW hit its all time record high today...

The S&P 500 hit its all time record high today...

and the NASDAQ hit its all time record high yesterday...

Tesla continues to climb as well for all of the Europeans that were dancing and cheering on the pending doom of Elon and his firm ($332 today... as opposed to as opposed to $251 exactly 1 year ago)..

I can assure you that no one in any position of power or influence on any matters of the US Economy gives more than 1/3000th of a hairy rats ass that Canadas PM and the BC Premier dont like the US Ambassador..

I find it pretty hysterical that CNN continues to stick to the same guns its been clinging onto since January... earlier today they had a panel screaming about how Trump is killing the US economy... when Kevin O'Leary (a Canadian no less) advised them the markets in the US are literally at the highest they have ever been in history.. their recant was "wait until August! thats when tarriffs are going to matter"..

They are laughable at this point to the degree I expect them all to get out of a VW beetle wearing make up, oversized shoes, and big red noses on the next episode..

 

[Hank2211]

Doubling down on this earlier post...

To be further clear about how all of the gloom and doom, wringing of hands, and gnashing of teeth over tariffs and how the Canadians were going to kill the US economy if Trump had his way...

The DOW hit its all time record high today...

The S&P 500 hit its all time record high today...

and the NASDAQ hit its all time record high yesterday...

Tesla continues to climb as well for all of the Europeans that were dancing and cheering on the pending doom of Elon and his firm ($332 today... as opposed to as opposed to $251 exactly 1 year ago)..

I can assure you that no one in any position of power or influence on any matters of the US Economy gives more than 1/3000th of a hairy rats ass that Canadas PM and the BC Premier dont like the US Ambassador..

I find it pretty hysterical that CNN continues to stick to the same guns its been clinging onto since January... earlier today they had a panel screaming about how Trump is killing the US economy... when Kevin O'Leary (a Canadian no less) advised them the markets in the US are literally at the highest they have ever been in history.. their recant was "wait until August! thats when tarriffs are going to matter"..

They are laughable at this point to the degree I expect them all to get out of a VW beetle wearing make up, oversized shoes, and big red noses on the next episode..

I might have missed the posts where it was suggested that Canada would kill the US economy. Had I seen it (or them), I would have said that was preposterous. The Canadian economy is a fraction of the US economy, and exports are a material part of Canada’s economy, while imports are a much, much less material part of the US economy. So even though I believe that free or at least freer trade would make both countries better off, I think it’s pretty clear which country has the most to lose in a trade war.

That’s not to say that certain sectors of the US economy won’t be hurt - Canada is the biggest export market for US wine and spirits for example - but overall, the US probably won’t miss too much of a beat.

Having said that, my own view is that the Dow is more than a little frothy at the moment, with P/E ratios that are far higher than historical averages and equally far higher than future growth would seem to account for. The question, at least to me, is not will we see a bear market, but when, and what will precipitate it.

 

[Red Leg]

I didn't watch all of this, but the opening implies that the people who are "acting up" and leading us to civil war are whites in fear of loosing their status? Perhaps recent voting patterns which defy this racial divide and the underlying basis of Betz's theory of civil violence was missed at King's College?

 

[WAB]

The expansion was certainly delayed and costs increased as a result of politics and aboriginal/First Nations issues, but it did eventually start up in May of 2024, adding about 500,000 barrels/day of west coast export capacity (at current prices for WCS, that's over US$25MM/day).

Interestingly (at least to me!), a lot of that additional crude went (and is still going) to California refineries, which are both easily accessible from Canada's west coast and ideally configured to run heavier crudes (historically the oil available to these refineries was heavier than WTI - you can see some of it if you walk on certain California beaches in bare feet!).

Sending more oil to California doesn't bother me in this case - once the oil is on a tanker, California has to compete with every other buyer in the world, so Canada gets a "world price" for the oil. That's not the case with pipelines which run from Canada to the US, where we are captive to the one buyer.

Agreed, but I was actually referring to the new trans-mountain route, not Trans Mountain pipeline. It makes a ton of sense, but could never get any traction due to political opposition.

 

[Brent in Az]

Large protests in Kyiv, as parliament strips anti corruption agencies of their independence, and puts them under the presidency.
Zelinskyy, is no doubt the ringleader of that corruption.

 

[Brent in Az]

 

[Brent in Az]

A panel of swamp judges

DOJ swiftly fires Alina Habba's court-appointed replacement for US attorney in New Jersey

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba faces an uncertain future as a U.S. attorney after judges voted against extending her term, prompting the Trump DOJ to swiftly fire her replacement.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Corey0372]

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Crap deal.

We The People wanted 70 series Land Cruisers made in the US and sold in the US.

Trump's woke.

 

[cwpayton]

Fake rino material that beat her closest Republican competitor in the primary election by a whopping 12,000 votes. Hmmm. Why didn't the good ol boys in the party machine vote her out? I didn't do the numbers but I'd be surprised if the 16 other candidates on the primary ballot (less the lone Democrat), many who were also GOP (also Libertarian, Independent, and Green Party), together add up to 12,000 votes. Even had they not been allowed on the ballot under the old boy party convention bullshit, I find it hard to believe Murkowski's Republican competitor would have absorbed all those votes. More likely that those candidates' family members, coworkers, neighbors, etc simply would not have voted. Or those votes would be split between Murkowski, the other GOP candidate, and the third place Democrat. Which is more or less probably what happened in the general election. Murkowski has won  every election since 2010, primaries or general. To claim she stole the election and doesn't represent the Republican voters of Alaska is not borne out by the statistics. It seems to me the current radicalized GOP party machine is out of touch with Alaska's GOP electorate. Good that Republican voters had an alternative to blind partisinism. I see shared votes system as much more conforming to the objectives of democracy.

Ranked choice voting and native Americans, ( who sadly have been schooled in socialism for 150yrs) put her there, IM so glad you like her seems like a hand in glove fit for you, even if she is a RINO.

 

[Brent in Az]

Crap deal.

We The People wanted 70 series Land Cruisers made in the US and sold in the US.

Trump's woke.

Woke is a social issue. Nothing to do with trade

 

[Corey0372]

Woke is a social issue. Nothing to do with trade

It's just a joke man. I don't know anything about the Japanese economy, other than that's where 70 series Land Cruisers come from.... and we're not gettin em!

So Trump's woke now because that's how not getting what you want works in 2025, you just use a "bad thing" term towards the person that is loosely associated with the thing you don't like.

He's woke and also a fascist.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Doubling down on this earlier post...

To be further clear about how all of the gloom and doom, wringing of hands, and gnashing of teeth over tariffs and how the Canadians were going to kill the US economy if Trump had his way...

The DOW hit its all time record high today...

The S&P 500 hit its all time record high today...

and the NASDAQ hit its all time record high yesterday...

Tesla continues to climb as well for all of the Europeans that were dancing and cheering on the pending doom of Elon and his firm ($332 today... as opposed to as opposed to $251 exactly 1 year ago)..

I can assure you that no one in any position of power or influence on any matters of the US Economy gives more than 1/3000th of a hairy rats ass that Canadas PM and the BC Premier dont like the US Ambassador..

I find it pretty hysterical that CNN continues to stick to the same guns its been clinging onto since January... earlier today they had a panel screaming about how Trump is killing the US economy... when Kevin O'Leary (a Canadian no less) advised them the markets in the US are literally at the highest they have ever been in history.. their recant was "wait until August! thats when tarriffs are going to matter"..

They are laughable at this point to the degree I expect them all to get out of a VW beetle wearing make up, oversized shoes, and big red noses on the next episode..

And when the markets do what they almost always do in August and September and tank a bit, they'll jump for joy and scream "I told you so!" And then of course come the end of the year rally they'll conveniently develop amnesia.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

Who is more shallow?

1. A younger hot woman who marries an older man for his money and nothing else?

or

2. An older man who married a young hot woman know that's why she's marrying him and that she has few if any redeeming qualities beyond her good looks?