Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, that’s life.,Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, then you die,.—The Verve.Tonight, I bought a bottle of Wiser’s whisky..I never did before, but because it was the favourite of my buddy Tommy, a Chrysler trucker who died a few weeks ago, I thought I would crack it open in his honour..Good guy, Tommy. Went to school with him at St. Joe’s..He died far too young. RIP my friend..This Wiser’s is not bad … very smooth. Made in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario..When I was in flight school, the Hiram Walker storage facilities, huge massive buildings that went on forever, were right next door at the threshold of Runway 07 at Windsor Airport..I swear, we could smell the whisky aging, as we learned about navigation, theory of flight, flight instruments, air frames and engines, flight operations, air law, pilot decision making and meteorology..To this day, that fragrance is like a perfume to me, part of my childhood..Anyway, I needed that bottle tonight, to get through the nightmare of COVID-19 election night 2021. The election that should have, never happened..Yeah, I watched CTV coverage, or … well, I sorta watched it..I had on my awesome Zeaplus wireless headphones and I listened to anything and everything on YouTube that would lift me out of the abyss..The TV team featured a culturally diverse panel that included such heavyweights as Jody-Wilson Raybould and Rona Ambrose, but again, I didn’t give a damn..Echoing in my brain were the words of Justin the Younger just a few days ago..The Court-Jester-In Chief’s crocodile tears flowed like never before, telling reporters in Richmond B.C., he “feels bad” for people living in Alberta and Saskatchewan who have “done the right thing” and gotten vaccinated..Taking the opportunity to gloat and grandstand during a pandemic election he called, our Great Leader continued: “And because of leadership that will not commit to keeping them safe in the right way, or protecting the economy the right way, they are facing greater risks because of cancelled surgeries, they are facing emergency public health restrictions that may have to be brought in.”.Hey folks in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the spoiled, silver spoon frat boy “feels bad” for you. He really, really does..Like hell he does. It’s a miracle I didn’t projectile vomit like Linda Blair in the Exorcist..He doesn’t give a damn about you or your dog. Not for one minute..This is the same man who wants to kill the oil industry, the very thing that has powered the Canadian economy for decades and showered the country with rich transfer payments..This is like Stalin saying he’s sorry for liquidating the Kulaks, for crissakes..Even worse, he’s run up a mind-boggling federal debt of $651.9 billion, and counting. .According to a podcast this week from that eloquent Newfie author and journalist, Rex Murphy, Canada is borrowing up to $100 million a day..I don’t know if that’s true, but this sure explains the lingering rumour the Grits are looking at taxing home sales. If true, how much longer before they get their claws into your RRSPs? .Crazy? You just watch..Planning for your retirement? Good luck pal — Mr. Trudeau and his Canadian bank friendly pirates will rob you in the end, and there’s no escape..We’ve just handed the keys to the asylum to a fair-haired baboon who has no idea how to manage a country, let alone an economy. (Apologies to all baboons.).Do the Liberals have a business plan, an economic plan, an industrial plan, a job creation plan? Let me know, when you hear about it..Last night it looked like Trudeau was headed for his third term – the second straight minority..What the hell do I tell my daughter now? .That billions spent by the government will be followed by more inexplicable billions spent, and she, and her cousins, will have to bear the brunt of it down the road?.What future will she have in Alberta, now? How will she afford to buy a house, or even a condo?.Six-figure green jobs, you say? Windmills and solar panels? Don’t make me laugh..If it wasn’t for petrochemicals, we would all be freezing to death and living in thatched huts..Tonight’s disappointing events take me back to that opening scene, in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, where Capt. Benjamin Willard, played by Marty Sheen, wakes up after a night of tortuous boozing..“Saigon .. s— … I’m still only in Saigon,” he says..Now I know what that feels like … I’m still in Canada … and I think I need another Wiser’s..Dave Makichuk is a Western Standard contributor. .,He has worked in the media for decades, including as an editor for the Calgary Herald. He is also the military editor for the Asia Times.,.makichukd@gmail.com
Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, that’s life.,Trying to make ends meet, you’re a slave to money, then you die,.—The Verve.Tonight, I bought a bottle of Wiser’s whisky..I never did before, but because it was the favourite of my buddy Tommy, a Chrysler trucker who died a few weeks ago, I thought I would crack it open in his honour..Good guy, Tommy. Went to school with him at St. Joe’s..He died far too young. RIP my friend..This Wiser’s is not bad … very smooth. Made in my hometown of Windsor, Ontario..When I was in flight school, the Hiram Walker storage facilities, huge massive buildings that went on forever, were right next door at the threshold of Runway 07 at Windsor Airport..I swear, we could smell the whisky aging, as we learned about navigation, theory of flight, flight instruments, air frames and engines, flight operations, air law, pilot decision making and meteorology..To this day, that fragrance is like a perfume to me, part of my childhood..Anyway, I needed that bottle tonight, to get through the nightmare of COVID-19 election night 2021. The election that should have, never happened..Yeah, I watched CTV coverage, or … well, I sorta watched it..I had on my awesome Zeaplus wireless headphones and I listened to anything and everything on YouTube that would lift me out of the abyss..The TV team featured a culturally diverse panel that included such heavyweights as Jody-Wilson Raybould and Rona Ambrose, but again, I didn’t give a damn..Echoing in my brain were the words of Justin the Younger just a few days ago..The Court-Jester-In Chief’s crocodile tears flowed like never before, telling reporters in Richmond B.C., he “feels bad” for people living in Alberta and Saskatchewan who have “done the right thing” and gotten vaccinated..Taking the opportunity to gloat and grandstand during a pandemic election he called, our Great Leader continued: “And because of leadership that will not commit to keeping them safe in the right way, or protecting the economy the right way, they are facing greater risks because of cancelled surgeries, they are facing emergency public health restrictions that may have to be brought in.”.Hey folks in Alberta and Saskatchewan, the spoiled, silver spoon frat boy “feels bad” for you. He really, really does..Like hell he does. It’s a miracle I didn’t projectile vomit like Linda Blair in the Exorcist..He doesn’t give a damn about you or your dog. Not for one minute..This is the same man who wants to kill the oil industry, the very thing that has powered the Canadian economy for decades and showered the country with rich transfer payments..This is like Stalin saying he’s sorry for liquidating the Kulaks, for crissakes..Even worse, he’s run up a mind-boggling federal debt of $651.9 billion, and counting. .According to a podcast this week from that eloquent Newfie author and journalist, Rex Murphy, Canada is borrowing up to $100 million a day..I don’t know if that’s true, but this sure explains the lingering rumour the Grits are looking at taxing home sales. If true, how much longer before they get their claws into your RRSPs? .Crazy? You just watch..Planning for your retirement? Good luck pal — Mr. Trudeau and his Canadian bank friendly pirates will rob you in the end, and there’s no escape..We’ve just handed the keys to the asylum to a fair-haired baboon who has no idea how to manage a country, let alone an economy. (Apologies to all baboons.).Do the Liberals have a business plan, an economic plan, an industrial plan, a job creation plan? Let me know, when you hear about it..Last night it looked like Trudeau was headed for his third term – the second straight minority..What the hell do I tell my daughter now? .That billions spent by the government will be followed by more inexplicable billions spent, and she, and her cousins, will have to bear the brunt of it down the road?.What future will she have in Alberta, now? How will she afford to buy a house, or even a condo?.Six-figure green jobs, you say? Windmills and solar panels? Don’t make me laugh..If it wasn’t for petrochemicals, we would all be freezing to death and living in thatched huts..Tonight’s disappointing events take me back to that opening scene, in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, where Capt. Benjamin Willard, played by Marty Sheen, wakes up after a night of tortuous boozing..“Saigon .. s— … I’m still only in Saigon,” he says..Now I know what that feels like … I’m still in Canada … and I think I need another Wiser’s..Dave Makichuk is a Western Standard contributor. .,He has worked in the media for decades, including as an editor for the Calgary Herald. He is also the military editor for the Asia Times.,.makichukd@gmail.com
