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That's a perfect synopsis of current NDP fortunes and I agree on all of your points. Well done sir! Losing Mulcair (and ascension of Singh) was likely the worst thing that's happened to them since the McLaughlin/McDonough doldrums.

Zed’s dead baby.

It’s all about the duality of man, man.

Regards today’s Uni vs. yesterday’s HS: When my daughter was taking her B.Ed at UVic, she gave me a general rundown of the course curriculum. My circa 1985 Grade 13 course load was more challenging.

That’s nothing new. I have a high school pal who did a chemistry degree at Western, then had to do two years at Sheridan to learn how to apply it practically. This was almost forty years ago. It’s also a side effect of HS guidance councillors pushing uni over anything else. I wonder if they...

I was just thinking, 'drop the turret on a 432, they'll get another 50 years out of it' and you post this :D

I’ve been involved in those where a good proportion of the off watch-crew were hammered. Two beer per man perhaps got tossed out of the porthole. Looking back, if there had been a ship wide emergency, I wonder how we would have fared. I guess the inability to police ourselves is the primary...

That’s the one.

I remember some early 80s Gwynn Dyer documentary on NORTHAG in Germany. He's interviewing some RTR LCol and some of his bods in a Chieftain. Gwynn: How long do you thing you'll last in an NBCD combat environment? LCol with plummy accent: We have the best NBCD kit in NATO pip-pip non-answer...

My old man said the tank tread stretcher race was worse than the log.

More than one needle gun pierced a steamer’s hull beneath the vaps. . Oh, you meant the frigates.

You mean this one?

With Victoria-area schools balking at the police liaison program despite parent support, a section of roaming baby-killing MAGA fascists ( as I’m sure BCTF would interpret it) might be a bit much for the bleeding heart brigade.

I’ve just finished ‘Defeat into Victory’. The Slim/Stilwell relationship was fascinating.

Good thing they kept Slim.

You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone - Joni Mitchell

….and doesn’t turn out unwatchable dreck while they’re at it. Nah, furgedabowdit.

Two words: Lizzy May.

LPC: Ok, yeah, we’re a bit of a cult around JT. Saanich and the Gulf Islands: Hold my gluten-free non-alcohol half-pint.

That never existed. Complete fallacy. Now come and step in this nice bucket whilst I add the concrete.