Bob Makichuk 🇨🇦

How Kentucky bourbon went from boom to bust Tariffs, oversupply and teetotaling Gen-Zs have all contributed to the downfall of one of America's most iconic liquors.

An American colleague told me about an elbows up experience he had in Canada. He asked the bartender what kind of bourbon she had.
The woman replied, "Honey, as long as that orange asshole is in power, you will never get a drink of bourbon here."
#boycott
ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/kentuck...

YouTube video by SilentBob73 Edgar Winter - Free Ride (Extended) [Dazed & Confused]

August 11, 1973

The Edgar Winter Group releases "Free Ride." 🎶🎤🤘

Bonus: A great video of growing up in the mid 70’s.

#ClassicRock
#RockNRoll
#ClassicVinyl
#MusicSky

youtu.be/Sl-DJwc8s44?...

6% of DC voted for Trump. It’s repeatedly rejected him.

His hatred for DC is white-hot.

What he does Monday comes exclusively his from hatred for nonwhites and other citizens who reject him.

It has nothing to do with violent crime rates in DC—which are plummeting dramatically.

Trump’s Unforgivable Sin Voters have proved willing to tolerate corruption, but there’s one thing they won’t ignore.

"Americans already understood Trump to be corrupt, and proved themselves willing to tolerate that. But now they are coming to believe that he is inept. In American politics, that is an unforgivable sin."

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Karl: The transformation has been gradual and unmistakable.

By February, some golden urns on the mantle.

April, gold adornments appear on the walls.

By July, it's gold everywhere.

Just this week more scaffolding popped up, even more new gold trim appeared.

trump’s trashy manhattan penthouse, but make it a white house liberace would be embarrassed to haunt

#autowah is in the middle of yet another heatwave. The Queensway is having a hard time of it.

YouTube video by Rodrigo Lima Derek and the Dominos - I Looked Away

RIP Bobby Whitlock, the heart of the Dominos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlm...

Not a hobby person? You can post:

This nice rock you found
A cute animal
What you had for lunch (remember when that was the main complaint about Twitter? innocent times)
What you read
A funny video you liked
Book recommendations
Weimar Germany memes

Instant follow.

Let's make Canada great again --North Bay Nugget, 28 Mar 1983

Peter Pocklington's 1983 PC leadership campaign slogan

Lisa Kudrow nailed it! This was the best
Republican impersonation I have ever seen, I was even getting upset thinking this was real. Love it!

I can't imagine living without music being part of my world.
Imagine being immune to that kind of joy.

On this day in 2008, we lost Isaac Hayes at 65. Stax Records legend, co-writer of “Soul Man,” Oscar winner for “Theme from Shaft,” and the unforgettable voice of Chef on South Park.

[August 10th, 1985] This week's music charts. Bryan Adams' "Reckless" reaches #1 on the Billboard 200, and would stay there for 9 weeks.

Alberta government changes expense disclosure policy, removes eight years of records | CBC News Key changes to Alberta’s expense disclosure policy mean that the receipts of senior government officials, including the premier, will no longer be public.

Danielle Smith & the UCP have decided you don’t deserve to know how they’re spending your $.

The Friday before a long weekend, they removed the requirement for the Premier, Ministers & senior staff to publicly post their receipts.

They say it’s too much “red tape.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rows of birds perched on metal beams looking like notes on a staff.

pigeons gather in scores

For everyone who’s like “wait, how did we get here, we had a Black president only a few years ago” I would remind them that history is not progressive and for every move towards greater equality, there is a conservative backlash towards an older status quo based off fear of the “other”

YouTube video by Tommy James Tommy James and the Shondells - Crimson & Clover

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

#OTD in 1944, Normandy. Try explaining you're *not* a sniper. #WW2 #HISTORY

YouTube video by The Pursuit of Happiness The Pursuit of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now (Official Video)

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Nixon's resignation letter.

Fifty-one years ago today.

French automobile design can be, shall we say, an acquired taste.
This though...is glorious.

#autowah

I seem to remember C&D deriding this as a dentist's car.

A particularly gut wrenching excerpt from this article:

Which Samsung Galaxy Phone Should You Buy? From flagship and budget to flipping and folding, Samsung’s Galaxy range spans the breadth of the smartphone cosmos. WIRED’s here to help you make your choice.

Yeah... after that Tim Cook 24 carat gold gift to Trump, guess what's trending? A lot of anti-Apple comments.

If you are looking to switch over... just dropping this here:

Cook openly bribed the president with a large hunk of gold in a televised performance of obeisance and walked away with a valuable tariff exemption.

Wow! Had to look this guy up. A test pilot who barrel-rolled a 707 prototype in front of Boeing and airline brass.
That's brass.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_M...

He became famous singing songs written by other people.
But Glen Campbell was an amazing picker. Funny how superb guitarists like him, or Roy Clark or Jerry Reed - all of the same generation, went virtually unremarked as musicians until they stepped up to the mic.