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Friday, last week. Started the day poorly, and it only got worse, by the time I let off work I knew I was in trouble. Thought I could sleep it off, no, it was hunkered in.
All week, fever, chills, exhaustion, cough, runny nose, phlegm, yellow, green, white, sleeping 16, 18 hours a day....
Wake up, dizzy, exhausted, by the time I finish my first cup of coffee. Then back to bed.
All week. I'd bought a treat at the Co-Op, sausages, Duck ala'Orange, I Iove duck, what could go wrong?
Whatever could, did, these met no expectations.
For the rest of the week, nothing but soup and lots of juice and tea. I call in sick to work for a day. It's been 40 years since I've called in sick, anywhere, and this isn't the worst I've been, but damn, I just can't do it.
Those shifts I show up for, still exhausted, way too tired.
Yesterday, morning, I go for breakfast. I have to eat, at least once this week. At the old hotel, their breakfast restaurant, the Hotel that promises to deliver a much better experience than in fact it ever does. Eggs Benny. And they arrive, only, they're like some 8th grader on his way to shop class got lost in a home-economics class and turned this in as his day-end project. are these eggs? really? push them around with your fork...maybe, scrambled? boiled? from a paste? powder? and where's the hollandaise sauce? round-cut hams peeled right from the plastic, crunchy-plastic english muffin (rinse and reuse?), hashbrowns overcooked and salted, more an inedible garnish than a side. I rarely enjoyed breakfast before, this fuckery confirms why.
I say nothing, push it around my plate, annoyed that this fuckery is allowed to pass for cooking, then home, nap, work.
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Today, off to get some groceries. A few. Then back home, then out to eat a big lunch. And I eat it, then a long nap, and then up - now up, and I'm suspecting, given my appetite, that I may be on the mend, but no overdoing it now, watch a movie, relax, and we'll see on the morrow...
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I've been the wing-nut on the corner holding up a placard and saying this all along, so it's nice to finally get a little validation:
Link: https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/politics/covid-19-lab-leak-cia-ratcliffe/index.html
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Zuckerberg has stopped fact checking, to allow for the global spread of misinformation.
And Elon Musk owns twitter, to help promote the global spread of misinformation, with a far-right leaning skew.
Then there's this. Chatham Asset Management. An American Company that owns a 66% share in all of the following newspapers.
- National Post
- Financial Post (administratively part of the National Post)
- Belleville Intelligencer
- Brantford Expositor
- Calgary Herald
- Cape Breton Post
- Chatham Daily News
- The Chronicle Herald (Halifax)
- Cornwall Standard Freeholder
- Edmonton Journal
- Kenora Daily Miner and News
- Kingston Whig-Standard
- London Free Press
- The Gazette (Montreal)
- North Bay Nugget
- Ottawa Citizen
- Regina Leader-Post
- The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
- Sault Star
- Sudbury Star
- Timmins Daily Press
- Vancouver Sun (not related to the tabloid Sun newspapers also owned by Postmedia)
- Windsor Star
- Calgary Sun
- Edmonton Sun
- Ottawa Sun
- The Province (Vancouver)
- Toronto Sun
- Winnipeg Sun
- Airdrie Echo (tabloid)
- Bow Valley Crag and Canyon (tabloid)
- Brockville Recorder and Times (broadsheet)
- Chatham This Week (tabloid)
- Clinton News-Record (tabloid)
- Cochrane Times (Alberta) (tabloid)
- Cochrane Times-Post (tabloid)
- Cold Lake Sun (tabloid)
- Drayton Valley Western Review (tabloid)
- Edson Leader (tabloid)
- Elliot Lake Standard (tabloid)
- Fort McMurray Today (tabloid)
- Fort Saskatchewan Record (tabloid)
- Goderich Signal-Star (tabloid)
- Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune (tabloid)
- Hanna Herald (tabloid)
- High River Times (tabloid)
- Hinton Parklander (tabloid)
- Kincardine News (tabloid)
- Kingston This Week (tabloid)
- Lakeshore Advance (Grand Bend; tabloid)
- Lloydminster Meridian Booster (tabloid) sold to Lloydminster Source Ltd
- Mid-North Monitor (Espanola; tabloid)
- Mayerthorpe Freelancer (tabloid)
- Nanton News (tabloid)
- Owen Sound Sun Times (broadsheet)
- Peace River Record-Gazette (broadsheet)
- Pincher Creek Echo (tabloid)
- Sarnia Observer (broadsheet)
- Sherwood Park News (tabloid)
- Simcoe Reformer (tabloid)
- St. Thomas Times-Journal (tabloid)
- Stratford Beacon Herald (broadsheet)
- Vulcan Advocate (tabloid)
- Vermilion Standard (tabloid)
- Whitecourt Star (tabloid)
- Winkler Times (tabloid)
- Woodstock Sentinel-Review (broadsheet)
If you ever wondered why these newspapers continue, in mass, to complain about Trudeau and recommend Pierre Poilievre as the only choice in the upcoming election, this is why. Note how many newspapers they own in Alberta. Pierre Poilievre has no qualifications, has been "compromised" by the Russians, and - with no experience and a treasonous nature that is second hand and makes him a shoe-in for Canada's Sycophant in waiting; they will continue to espouse him as the "only choice". Mark Carney, with a list of qualifications that would make most Presidents and World Leaders envious, is advertised as being an "inside liberal".
None of this is true, but we've allowed the Americans to infiltrate and control our media - almost entirely, and so while you'll never find a Canadian Owned News Outlet endorsing or even considering Poilievre - or Smith - their base is dependant almost entirely on US owned media, which have proven as adept as trolling as the Russians.
Anyways, if you want accurate, unbiased Canadian owned news, well, your list of options is considerably shorter:
- https://www.cbc.ca/
- https://www.thestar.com/
- https://www.theglobeandmail.com/
- https://www.ledevoir.com/
- https://thetyee.ca/
We're in trouble. If your getting your news from anywhere not on this list you're being played. Alternatively, there are some good, relatively unbiased newspapers abroad, but most of them aren't paying attention to Canadian Politics.
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In the news, too much news, really, but Google has decided to go ahead and rename the "Gulf of Mexico" the "Gulf of America".
We, of course, don't have to be a part of this. Google has decided to concede and skew it's results in favour of the Presidency, we can find other search engines and mapping tools that don't.
And we should, we've seen the propaganda arm of the US under way, and to rely on it for any sort of useful information is not only useless but dangerous.
Here are a list of search engines that have yet to kiss the Orange Menaces *ss:
And some mapping tools that may well leave the Gulf of Mexico as it is:
There are many others. Get out of the habit of using what are clear propaganda arms of the US and feeding Google your ad-revenue.
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Friday morning, wake up under the weather, all day.
Exhausted, this a result of what I suspect to be a bad head & chest cold. I finish work early, am asleep by 9:00 PM, Saturday morning up at 9:00. All night the same dream, I can't recall it, just a couple of objects...
Up at 9:00, coffee, go get some groceries, exhausted again, sleep another 4 hours, then read, head to work.
Not as bad as Friday night.
Then bed. All night, lying, stray thoughts, not images, exhausted but it doesn't seem I ever fell asleep at all, although I must have, I would remember a table in the restaurant, have to go check on them, then I'd realize I was in my bed, there are no tables in the restaurant, and so try to fall asleep again.
This morning, up way too early, but I'll try and nap again later. Eating Fisherman's Friends like their going out of style, and then I read the byline "In case of accidental overdose", and suddenly I'm reading the rest of the package, "Take as required", I mean...
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Today, such an early start and completely without motivation. No news, so to speak, but tonight is a poetry slam and I should be polishing off a couple of masterpieces so I can show up and compete...that will be the challenge of the day, to see if I can focus long enough to get a couple - just a couple - of poems done.