I’m running a Coyote service through Waterton-Glacier for anyone jonesin’ for pootine…
Just sayin’.
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Do they call them Wolverines instead, eh?
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Oh man. When they closed the schools I tried to alleviate my kid’s distress by suggesting that we plan a vacation for when it was all over; somewhere they’d never been.
They picked Vancouver, B.C. That was March. 2020. Never thought it would be this long
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I think canada’s gonna maintain the denial of entry and/or 14 day quarantine until we fulfill all our vaccine contracts with them (we’re quite a bit behind).
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I can’t argue with that. Also we’re not exactly conducting ourselves as good neighbors who should be invited in at the moment are we?
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Gov Hotwheels was at the border the other day with Trump. I guess that was embarrassing enough for him.
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My niece goes to UBC in Vancouver. My Bro and SIL had to meet her for picnic at the Peace Park in Blaine.
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Oh man, that’s rough. I wonder if we will pass down the stories to our kids or just shove it down the memory hole like the Spanish flu.
My grandma was in kindergarten in 1919. She had many, many stories, but not one about the flu pandemic
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Because why not? I mean rioters can translate words of “the Others”… the brown folk. The English spoken by local folk into the right wing gibberish the Goobers speak is a hard skill to learn.
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I actually saw a piece a few days ago that said Trudeau was going to drop the first step - three day hotel stays for returning citizens & permanent residents, starting July 5th. This won’t affect Yanks, but is seen as the first step in the process of reopening, with a tentative goal (not a promise) of letting in the riffraff back in by September or so.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/21/canada-us-border-reopening-july-5-vaccine-495335
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I miss being able to go to Canada so much! All the years of the Former Guy ranting about the Southern Border, I loved the thought of the Northern Border’s relationship with the US.
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Not sure where I saw/heard this, but someone really got it right when they indicated that the only word spelled with 3 silent K’s is KKKGOP.
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They called it ‘incidental’ not ‘coincidental.’ Yeah. It was a planned incident.
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i think maybe Canadians are enjoying the absence of Ugly Americans… it might take a while since there are so many who refuse to get vaccinated.
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there just wasn’t the readily availble’news’ back then…now we know what has happened as it is happening.
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My father in law’s family emigrated from the Soviet Union by walking through Europe during WW2 ahead of the Soviets and behind the Germans. He had plenty of hair-raising memories, near misses, etc. They were forced laborers in German-occupied Poland, they made it to the American-controlled part of Germany only a day or two before armistice. One brother didn’t survive and his grandmother had to be left along the way, as she was too weak to continue. He never talked about either of them. I heard about his grandmother by chance, once, when asking about geneology. That his mother nearly died I found out by asking about holes in his narrative, when trying to write it down.
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But my grandma was old enough to remember her own experience directly. She had stories about the first day of kindergarten, about what it was like to be German American at the outbreak of WWI, stories about my great-grandfather’s career as a police officer, but none about a pandemic that resulted in the deaths of thousands of adults in their prime.
It’s a hole that’s repeated across our culture. Lots of stories, books, films, songs about “the roaring twenties”, lots about WWI, but nearly nothing about the pandemic. I learned just this year that Philadelphia had to do a “bring out your dead” collection of bodies during the Spanish flu (first known case in Harlan Co. Kansas). You’d think that would make a bigger impression on our oral traditions
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Wow. I’m glad you were able to rescue the story at least and honor the memories of those who didn’t survive. What a wrenching set of choices.
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Ronny Jackson is the Navy hard-on who was drunk on the job while doling out prescription pills - does he still have a medical license?
It is proof positive that the game is rigged when a guy like those can go from disgraced white house doctor to congressman so simply.
We’re going to have to win this war with money.
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It won’t be another week-- before Abbott embarrasses himself again.
It’s like he aims for the sh^tpiles now.
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