Recent content by JLB50

Yes, rhey can and should be both. Socialism and capitalism are simply convenient labels that tend to represent somewhat vague ideals, yet can be very broad in their manifestations. To some, paying taxes for streets, highways and sewers smacks of socialism. Many would like to go back to the...

Honouring Article 5??? The only thing Trump may honour is his word to Putin, such as an alleged agreement between the two of them regarding Ukraine and Venezuela...

Hey, is it really any different than those (including myself) who have cast serious aspersions on Justin Trudeau and his loyalty to democracy?

Cowardly blackguarding Trump? Are we talking about the same person? The same rapist, convicted felon Trump? The same Trump who has been impeached twice? The same Trump who claims that just about everybody who opposes him is crooked, a criminal, a cheat? And at the same time the same Trump...

Yeah, right. You said that in October 2022

It seems pretty obvious nowadays.

Well, Trump’s own niece, Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist. She has experienced his personality disorder first hand. I’d hardly call that a remote diagnosis.

To “the same degree as Nazi Germany”??? Wow. That in itself speaks volumes.

I am imagining something along the lines of this conversation occurring in Czechoslovakia, Austria or Poland right before the Nazis took over those lands, either through Anschluss, threats or outright invasion.

Let’s assume the worst should happen and the Americans do either a major invasion or a quick takeover of Canada’s infrastructure. I would hope that the majority of Canadians would not simply stand by without doing anything. During the Nazi’s occupation of Europe people of all ages and economic...

I agree. Team Canada…an absolute must. Or as Benjamin Franklin himself once said: “We must all hang together or we will all hang separately“. Interestingly, as you may recall, on the behalf of the Continental Congress, Franklin made a secret trip to Montreal in 1776. He was hoping to get...

I never met the guy but I remember my American mother telling me about a brother-in-law who was in the C.I.A. in the 1950s amd 60s. She said he used to hint about the role he had in helping to destabilize and overthrow the governments of certain Latin American countries that were resisting...

Let’s go back in time…way back in time…like yesterday. Remember how Trump was saying how the U.S. was absolutely going to do something about the drug trafficking in Venezuela? Well, in today’s press conference he hardly mentioned the drug problem. Almost everything was about…you guessed...

Don’t be surprised if, before long, Trump says the same thing about Canada and how the government is tacitly supporting the drug traffickers here. Drug trafficking is the hot button he has created, and the American people seem to be accepting it. So why change it? It worked once so keep on...

I take it hell will freeze over before the old Saint John Shipbuilding yards are given new life? Mind you, I haven’t been to Saint John in years and don’t know whether the yards were ever repurposed…e.g. condos.