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Smoke 'em if you got 'em (pro tip, don't whip out a joint when the platoon warrant says that)

My scotch-addled brain seems to remember they did the promotion freeze back in 1997 for everyone because the CF offended the government of the day - I believe it was related to the Somalia matter - just as my promotion paperwork was in the pipeline. It cost me 6 months seniority at the next rank...

Would invoking George Santayana be in poor taste at this point? Asking for a friend.

And yet, yesterday I saw a TV ad by one of the usual liberal astroturf organizations whom I'd never heard of before, demonizing Erin O'Toole on the health care file. Reading the entrails shows an early election call this spring.

May 1st is what some of us call the Victims of Communism Memorial Day.

Never let a crisis go to waste.

Didn't waddle away fast enough after strapping a beloved uncle to the missile?

I'm torn between maintaining a Stanley Cup playoffs style of hirsuteness until this is over and going back to the sort of grooming I performed on my noggin and face when I was still parading one night a week and one weekend a month.  Back then, I gave my head a once over with a clipper set to #3...

Non-Xi Jinping controlled genocidal state apparatus.  The Chinese people are as much victims of their rulers as anyone else.

The Chinese Communist Party is an existential threat to humanity.  Change my mind

I used to think travel insurance was an expensive add-on until now.  Wife and I a trip to the Caribbean planned for May.  We splurged on business class seats.  Airlines all paid up.  Air Canada offered a credit to be used before December 31st, 2020, Cayman Air's credit would be good until...

Must..... Not..... Make..... Obvious...... Joke :whistle:

I call it an after action review (AAR)

Trudeau with a beard reminds me of Sheldon Cooper's nemesis Wil Wheaton in The Big Bang Theory...  ;D

Sophie left him?

I'm pretty sure that's a yogurt

Good and hard

It's on the CBC right now.  Scheer is stepping down.

I did one transatlantic crossing in a Yukon from Dusseldorf to Trenton as a six year old the year before the 707s came online and I still vividly remember the mind-numbing monotony half a century later