Em Adespoton

Oh, I thought you were going to say he started fiercely defending Pete again after Pete named the death star prototype after him.

Reminds me of The Life of Brian….

Did someone in DOGE finally realize it would be more efficient to embed the employees in other departments and close DOGE?

Also, make it more difficult to bring those responsible to account?

Ah, but they’ve already claimed that Musk wasn’t part of DOGE and he’ll claim that the employees were making assumptions and he never said such a thing. And he’d probably be correct; Musk is much better than Trump at weasel wording things.

Doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a meticulous investigation though.

That would be yet another illegal order, wouldn’t it?

My potentially incorrect hot take on it is that the proposed indigenous land rights are completely compatible with regular home ownership and property rights; where they conflict is more with surveyor’s rights and municipal rights.

Meaning, the property can still be bought and sold, but they’d have more control over zoning and resource extraction/management.

Did you know that on property you own, if someone else has a mineral claim staked, they currently have the right to access the land under your home to extract the minerals?

And did you know that the government, at any level, can decide to re-zone your property out from under you for whatever purpose it deems fit, resulting in a property that couldn’t be sold for current use?

The new land rights would mean that these types of actions could no longer happen unilaterally but would need a review by a panel set up by the local indigenous people before it could go ahead.

Essentially, they get to have some control back about HOW the land is used that they managed for thousands of years — land management rights that they never gave up when settlers claimed the land for themselves and began arbitrarily deciding what could be done with it.

If someone has more details, please correct me where I’m wrong here.

[edit] Looks like in these cases, I’m partly wrong — they also want control over private land sale in the outlined regions. This still needs to be worked out.

It’s also worth pointing out that the Cowichan are claiming these rights to land that is currently privately owned by the Musqueam AND is also their traditional territory. So there’s lots here to still figure out, and it will likely be in the courts for years to come, depressing property values all the while.

Once this precedent is sorted out by the supreme courts, we’re likely going to see similar cases all across Canada.

On the up side, this might be the solution to the housing crisis — but modern property owners may end up losing some of their traditional rights.

When the Kuwaiti girl talking about Iraqis killing babies turned out to be a US plant during the first Bush reign, that was enough to get me to start asking what the US game plan was, and what the real motivations in the Middle East were. And I was old enough to remember who installed Hussein.

So when Bush II came along, I was expecting the action, just waiting to see what the excuse would be. And the excuse didn’t match the action; there was already a UN delegation that could have helped Iraq clean up the remaining agents with no involvement of US troops.

And of course, there was no reason to attack Iraq because of a Saudi who successfully attacked the US was hiding somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

Are we talking about people with $1B in the bank, or people “worth $1B” though?

If you got rid of the stock market today, forgave all loans and capped property values, it would be interesting to see who is actually rich.

…the President has said that the two men fell out prior to Epstein’s convictions.

…tells us only that he didn’t sever ties because of the bad optics.

Epstein didn’t become a child exploiter when he was convicted. There’s documented evidence and witness testimony of him taking underage girls from Mar-a-Lago to his private island —which there is documented evidence of Trump having visited numerous times — where they were sexually abused.

I do say that I’m curious what they fell out over though. Did Epstein try to blackmail Trump? Vice versa?

Very few non-dictatorial countries have ever had the equivalent to a US President. Most other countries also have a Prime Minister (and many also have a Governor General). Germany adds in a chancellor. Some even have actual royalty or religious leaders whose only political job is supposed to be to disband parliament when things get out of hand.

Wow… that’s some REALLY heavy spin there.

There’s a lot of them.

Betteridge’s law of headlines applies here.

People who call themselves Christians but don’t live by the teachings of Christ (and often don’t even know them).

On the other hand, I’ve never heard a really good explanation of magnetic flux that doesn’t involve a bit of circular reasoning.

Nope. But then, Reagan had Nancy at his side to provide the smarts.

It’ll be interesting to see what the other 18 do with the US and Russia out of the room. Possibly some real and dependable agreements can be hammered out.

Other way around here… no taxation without representation. If they’ve shut everything down, they’re not representing their constituents, so there should be no tariffs/taxation until they come to an agreement.

I think the author has misunderstood what the phrase “it’s too bad” means when Trump says it.

“It’s too bad it isn’t me who owns that building” always meant he was going to do whatever it took to own the building, for example. It’s how he expresses his desire to have something at any cost.

How long until ICE starts arresting ICE agents?