🚨🚨🚨Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced that the province will remove all American alcohol products from Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) shelves, affecting nearly $1 billion worth of U.S. wine, beer, spirits, and seltzers and eliminate American products from its catalog.

Bear in mind, those are monthly totals (Oct 2024. Colorado imports $5.6B in goods from Canada annually and exports $1.9B to Canada each year.

Colorado’s top import (by far) is Canadian petroleum (Suncor refinery). FYI if you buy gasoline.

Colorado’s top export is beef. This could be a rough stretch for ag.

Colorado’s top import markets:
1. Canada ($374M)
2. China ($150M)
4. Mexico ($88.6M)

Colorado’s top export markets:
1. Mexico ($148M)
2. Canada ($104M)
4. China ($55.4M)

Source: OEC, Oct 2024

"When Mexico sends its people, they're sending their best. They're sending firefighters to help solve American problems. They're bringing fire fighting uniforms. They're bringing fire fighting equipment. They're bringing kittens down from trees. And all, I assume, are good people."

Imagine being more outraged about a pardoned son than a convicted felon as leader of the free world

This.

I follow a subreddit (r/HerOneBag) dedicated to one bag travel, reading about women obsessing over every gram they pack, while silently despairing. I could never achieve carry-on only for overseas trips. I'm loving this post more than you know.

I ditched cable TV months ago. I don't subscribe to any streamer that has CNN or MSNBC. I haven't missed them.

This just possibly maybe could be me during one of my typical days in retirement. Just saying.

If anyone reading this thought the gig economy was something new . . .

Reminder: all of these people requested pardons.

A yellowing sheet of paper showing the photos of the eight musicians who died on the Titanic. At the top it reads: "The Heroic Musicians of the Titanic who died at their posts like men - April 15th, 1912.

I recently watched the documentary, TITANIC: BAND OF COURAGE, on PBS. What struck me most was that the families of the musicians couldn't claim compensation from the White Star Line as they were independently employed by an agency that then billed families for the lost uniforms after the sinking.

Here’s a crazy idea. Let’s make sure the proposed new FBI Director can pass an FBI Background Check.

If you voted for a man that organized a violent attack on our nation's capitol and elected leaders, I don't want to hear you complain about Hunter Biden's pardon.

The day America decided to ignore Jared Kushner's $2 billion from the Saudis, and put an insurrection-inciting convicted felon back in the White House, is the day I stopped giving a shit about any "moral high ground."

I hope President Biden takes his "presidential immunity" out for a fucking spin.

Trump pardoned a dozen drug traffickers, bypassed & ignored DOJ input, pardoned dozens of Republican elected officials, business cronies, lawyers, friends, donors and campaign officials. Promised to pardon J6ers who beat cops. I don’t care about Joe pardoning his last son.

The very same people that pointed out that Kamala Harris had no proof of working at McDonalds 40-years ago are just fine with no vetting & no background check for the highest and most powerful offices in the government.

Let that sink in.

The double standards are unbelievable.

Good Morning SKIES of Blue

America ...So many hypocrites
So many are in for an awakening

The father of twelve children, who promotes families having more children, spent Thanksgiving with none of them. Instead, he was discussing video games with Barron and awkwardly bopping to YMCA, referred to as the ‘Gay National Anthem’.

Jean Rather, surrounded by loving family and friends and her beautiful artwork, died in Austin, Texas, on November 26, 2024. Her cause of death was cancer. She was 89.

My sincere condolences to Dan Rather and his family. 💙

The Trump ordeal has made one thing clear.

Too many of our checks and balances rely on norms, traditions and the honor code.

It works when those elected into power are people of honor and integrity who respect our norms and traditions.

Elect a lifelong criminal and it all goes sideways.

💙

Photos of Richard Nixon & Donald Trump when they were president.

Richard Nixon in 1973:

"I am not a crook."

Donald Trump in 2024:

"I *am* a crook and there isn't a goddamn thing you can do about it!"

In the meantime: In 2023, Mexico supplied 63 percent of U.S. vegetable imports and 47 percent of U.S. fruit and nut imports. www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/...

Facts matter. Science saves lives. Anti-science destroys them.

Canada's top military commander Jennie Carignan calls out the GOP for questioning women in combat: After 39 years as a combat arms officer and risking my life in many operations, I can’t believe that in 2024, we still have to justify women's contribution to defense and service in their country...

100%. It's a simple, elegant plan for Elon and his cronies:

Step 1: gut the federal workforce

Step 2: secure a zillion dollars in extra contracts to perform all the functions you just gutted at a massive markup

The usual suspects are out there yelling "There are 23 million government workers! Fire most of them!" No awareness that most work for local governments, and most of *them* are schoolteachers. Federal employment hasn't grown since the 1950s