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Fragile Bird

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  1. Did anyone see the story that popped up about vanishing Air Pakistan stewardesses? At first I wondered if they were claiming they had been murdered or something, but no, planes come in to Canada from Islamabad, the flight crew gets off and then someone never shows up the next day. Eight in the last year, the most recent this month. Apparently Pakistan is blaming lax Canadian refugee laws. It’s been happening with flights to Paris and into other EU cities as well. The story I saw suggested the lousy pay for crew might have something to do with it.
  2. Lol, that didn’t even cross my mind!
  3. Congrats to your little nephew’s school! “Harrow flew down”? Did you mean Fox flew down?
  4. I suspect a long list of Conservative politicians attended Harrow. You know the saying about the playing fields of England? It seems like none of sex, drugs or cheating are things you get expelled for, if Parliament is any example. Maybe he was blackmailing somebody.
  5. I have no idea what happened, but he was a student at the very upper crust school Harrow, when he was expelled a few weeks before taking his A-levels. He couldn’t get into any university due to a report about him from Harrow. There may be something out there on the internet explaining what he did, but I haven’t bothered looking. Presumably it was about cheating, but maybe it was something more, Sex, drugs and cheating?
  6. Hey, maybe you guys gotta build that wall with Canada! An Iranian and two Canadians, including a Hell’s Angel, have been indicted in a plot to assassinate Iranian dissidents in the US.
  7. I thought I’d look up Fox on Wikipedia just for the heck of it, and holy crap, he was married to Billie Piper? Girl, you gotta make better choices. (Read the Piper page too)
  8. For the last 10 years I’ve bought Olive oil sold by the Peace and Justice committee at my church. They mainly bring speakers in and pass around petitions to be signed, but once a month they sell fair trade stuff to the parishioners, chocolate and coffee, spices from the Middle East, occasionally some crafts, and as I said, bottles of olive oil, produced by farmers from the West Bank. Unfortunately bringing in the olive oil has become too complicated for the importer and it’s no longer available. I’ll have to go to main stream suppliers. The Costco Kirkland brand’s okay, as are some of the grocery store brands. Speaking of pancakes, I came across a stupidly easy recipe that’s quite tasty. Ingredients - two eggs and a banana. I crack open the eggs and beat them well, and then thoroughly smash up the banana and add the eggs. Mix well and make pancakes from the batter. Add cinnamon if you want.
  9. When I saw the post I checked the list of Penric & Desdemona books and nothing new came up, but I just checked again and saw Demon’s Daughter comes up. I assume this is what is being discussed? My library doesn’t have it yet, it will probably be a while longer.
  10. I didn’t know that the Nazis killed millions of Palestinians. In fact, I thought they actually had Arab allies in WW 2, because, you know, the Germans were killing Jews. The insult to Jews seems far more serious in those circumstances.
  11. Such a beautiful place! And the sound of running water…
  12. I don’t know if this is the right place to mention this, but since this war started because of the terrorist attack on Oct. 7, I guess there is no better place. There’s a UN agency called UNRWA, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Turning on my cell phone tonight a headline story popped up saying 11 workers for the agency participated in the Oct. 7 terrorist attack. Canada had already announced it is suspending support payments to the agency, as is the US. I assume other countries will as well. Expect people in a number of countries to use this as yet another reason not to support the UN. Pretty sad situation.
  13. Has a bill been proposed yet regarding the wall to be built at the Canadian border? Or is Canada going to pay for it?
  14. Spocky, the only thing Spanish cities are really notorious for is pickpockets. Do be careful!
  15. I see a court has decided the use of the Emergencies statute to clear Ottawa after their police force turned out to be so inept was not justified. I guess not enough hot tubs were brought in, and not enough people pissed on the war memorial, not enough lives were disrupted, not enough violas threatened, and the government wasn’t humiliated enough. The feds are appealing.
  16. The story said he bought a small house outside Las Vegas, and “even if it wasn’t a mansion”, it was all his.
  17. I just saw a story that popped up on Google, about a guy who worked at the Burger King at Las Vegas airport. Hell, he may have served me on one of the occasions we took my parents there. After 27 years of service, BK honored his years of service by giving him a goody bag with candy and pens and other such crap on it. He did a TikTok video showing the stuff. A single father with two children, he struggled to keep a roof over their heads. One of his daughters did a GoFundMe page to raise some retirement money for him, and as of the end of December $450,000 had been donated. Now, I know BK wouldn’t have given him anything remotely like that kind of money, but if his wages had been living wages maybe his life and the lives of his children would have been a lot less hand to mouth. And hey, Americans, does the IRS tax donations made on GoFundMe pages?
  18. A story popped up on my Google page that said the state of Virginia had been reviewing their 2020 election numbers, as Trump kept saying the results were wrong. Trump was correct. Largely due to human error programs were not properly run and guess what happened? Biden got short changed about 1648 votes and Trump got credited with about 2327 too many. Funny how consistently Trump makes accusations against other people that actually are things that he’s doing. (Not that he was responsible, it’s just funny!)
  19. Wasn’t the weather largely to blame for the low turnout? The daytime temperatures started around -15 which is -26C, rising to maybe -8, or -22C, but with the windchill the temperatures were as low as -30, -34C. Who the hell wants to go out and vote in those temperatures?
  20. I see the other current thread is gone, I thought the two threads would be combined. A couple of days ago the top ten coldest places in the world were all in Canada. Yesterday’s list says the coldest place on earth was a town in Siberia, but 18 of the 20 coldest places on earth were here in Canada. Number 18 was another town in Russia. These cold temperatures are ones that will kill you very quickly if you aren’t properly dressed, and will burn any part of your body not protected within a minute or two. Frostbite is seriously dangerous.
  21. Parts of the North West Territories are seeing -49 today, which is -56.2 F, and with the wind chill it’s -57, or -70 F. Edmonton, Alberta saw -43 at the airport, -45 F (-50 is the crossing point for C and F), -53 with the wind chill (-63 F). A lot of flights got cancelled, the equipment was too cold to run.
  22. Friends of mine told me that snowstorms in Wisconsin have created snow drifts as high as the street light poles. Anyone from Wisconsin here? Years ago other friends showed me pictures of the father and his son standing beside a street light, shining at their feet. New Brunswick can get a lot of snow in winter….
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