IT WAS SIX ABOUT DECADES AGO . . . AND IT’S COMING TO FRUITION:
About 60-Years Ago, At The Time Of The Arab (OPEC) Boycotts Of Gas To America . . . As a Teenager, I Watched a Documentary Called THE OIL-MIGHTY DOLLAR, Dealing With Unimaginable Oil Wealth in the Middle East, and How that Obscene Wealth will One Day be Used Against the West as a Financial Cudgel.
While It Is True That We Have Enough Oil To Sustain Ourselves Today – 60-Years Later, it is Also True that this Monstrous Amount of Money Has been Successfully Used Against the West to Determine the Politics of Nations, the Information Disseminated in Academia, and the Anti-Freedom Propaganda Spread Globally through Legacy Media & Social Media.
MANY HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IS HARD TO IGNORE:
Not Only Has this Arab (Islamic) Oil-Wealth Inculcated Western Governments Throughout Europe, it Has Found its Way with a Vengeance Into the United States of America & Canada-Too.
HOW MUCH INFLUENCE HAS THIS MONEY BOUGHT IN WASHINGTON?
It Is Not A Secret That Horrible Countries Like Qatar, Have Become Piggy-Banks for Wealthy Businesspeople Wanting to Become Even Wealthier, as Well as Connected Politicians Looking for Personal Wealth & Money they Could Use With Which to Buy Elections . . . Plus The Ever-Present Lobbyists Who Would Sell Their Soul To The Highest Bidder.
DON’T BELIEVE A DAMNED THING THEY SAY – POLITICS IS A DIRTY BUSINESS:
In Spite Of Everything Trump Said About The Half Billion Dollar 747 Gifted To Him By Qatar . . . It was Obscene & Indicative of Everything you Just Read in the Preceding, Along with the Reputed (Enormous) Amounts of Money which Witkoff & Jared Kushner Amongst Others in the Trump Realm Have Enjoyed from Qatar.
The Half Billion Dollar “Gift” Of The 747 Can Be Spun Any-Way Trump Chooses, But it Could Not be Twisted, Turned & Gyrated Enough to Hide the Real Purpose of a Gift of Such a Disproportional Magnitude.
CANADA SHOULD MIX-OUT OF AMERICA’S POLITICS:
I Saw The Doug Ford Reagan Ad That Got Trump’s Knickers In A Twist . . . But I Also Saw & Read the Original Speech that Reagan Delivered, which was Part of the Doug Ford Ad.
In My Opinion . . . Premier Ford Had Every Right To Make His Thoughts Known . . . But Also In My Opinion – Ford Was A Buffoon To Get Involved In The Politics Of Another Nation.
Also, Ford Speaks For Ontario, Not Canada, and it Rankled Me More than Just Somewhat that Ford Pissed-Away $75-Million Tax Dollars On Folly, Especially since we in Ontario are Struggling just to Make Ends Meet.
In Terms Of What Reagan Actually Said All Those Years Ago About Tariffs . . . Click On This Link to Watch & Listen for Yourself, to What Reagan Said from Camp David On April 25, 1987 – And You Be The Judge . . . It is Only 5-Minutes & 10-Seconds.
As A Feeble Excuse For This Poorly Timed Ad . . . Trump Has Cut-Off all Trade Negotiations with Canada, Levied an Additional 10% Tariff on Canadian Imports to the United States of America – And Not Only That . . .
Trump Decided to Close Access to a Common Library (Haskell Free Library) that Straddles the Canadian & America Border Right Down The Middle, which was Open to Citizens of Both Countries Between Stanstead Quebec & Derby Line Vermont for More than a Century. How Petulant Is That?
If One Should Not Inject Himself Into Another Nation’s Politics – Neither Should The Other.
I Just Want To Remind Everyone . . . On April 28, 2025 – Just About 6-Months Ago, Donald Trump Injected Himself Completely into Canadian Politics, First by Insulting Canada by Calling our Prime Minister Governor, then by Inferring that Canada is Not a Real Country by Demanding We Become America’s 51st State, then by Smacking Canada with High Tariff Rates by Making Totally Untrue Accusations About Canada’s Trade Surplus with America, and the Charge that Canada was Somehow Responsible for much of the Fentanyl Problem Plaguing America, even though the DEA Said it Wasn’t True, then by Dissing Canada’s Popular Conservative Political Leader Pierre Poilievre, In Favor Of Businessman Liberal Leader Mark Carney.
So Now Canada Has Mark Carney As Prime Minister . . . And Canada Is Imploding.
WHAT IS TRUMP’S MESSAGE?
As It Is, Canadians Are Staying Away From US Travel In Droves. And to Add Fuel to the Fire, we Have Been Informed by US Customs that New Forms Must be Filled-Out by all Canadians Entering the United States of America, Who Intend To Stay For Longer Than 30-Days . . . Meaning Snowbirds Like Anne & Myself.
In Addition To The Forms, which we Always Have to Have on our Possession Wherever we Go in America During the Duration of our Stay in America, at the Risk of Being Fined Up to $5,000 Without Having the Form on our Person, Along With Possible Jail & Deportation Without Ever Being Allowed Into America Again As A Consequence.
We Also Have to be Finger-Printed & Bio-Scanned, Only If We Intend To Spend More Than 30-Days In America – And Only If We Cross By Land.
Since Anne, The Boys & I Are Leaving Canada To The USA For The Winter This Coming Tuesday . . . Over the Past Month, Right Up to this Past Tuesday, Anne & I Have Had Several Conversations with US Customs People by Phone, also with Face-to-Face Meetings at the Border, Including this Past Tuesday, where an American Custom Agent was as Perplexed as we are, Especially Since Our Nexus Cards Mean Very Little To Nothing Vis-À-Vis This Issue.
Even Though We Paid To Be Investigated By Homeland Security To Be Given Our Nexus Cards, Fingerprinted, Bio-Scanned & Made to Swear an Oath of Honesty for our Nexus Retention, With A Serious Threat If We Ever Do Anything In Violation There-Of . . . It Seems that Homeland Security Still Wants Us to be Re-Fingerprinted & Re-Bio-Scanned, Even Though Our NEXUS Cards Were Just Recently Renewed.
EVEN THOUGH ANNE & I ALWAYS FEEL WELCOME BY AMERICANS . . .
It’s Not A Wonder. . . Why So Many Canadians will Not Go South this Winter, or Even Make Day-Trips to America to Shop & Eat . . . They Don’t Feel Welcome, which is a Terrible Pity . . . Since We Are Far More Than Just Neighbors & Trading Partners.
Not Counting Today . . . In Just Two Days (Tuesday) – Anne, The Falconator, The Mac-Attack & I Will be Crossing the Border to Spend Five Glorious Months in America, with so Many of our American Friends & Acquaintances . . . In-Spite Of The “Issues” At The Border.
Because We will be Spending so Much Time Packing & Setting Things-Up for the Long Drive (1,000-Miles) South, Towing a 41-Foot RV to Myrtle Beach, It Is Unlikely That I Will Write Another Editorial Within The Next Few Days.
In The Meantime . . . Let’s All Hope For Better & Not Worse.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
12 Comments
The Donald is boastful, bombastic, inarticulate, repetitive and speaks his mind. That’s what I like about him. All the others are simply politicians who will be forgotten within days of their demise.
Wishing y’all safe and pleasant traveling to SC. I’m sure that you are aware of how the demographic has changed in Canada with there being so many more Chinese and other foreign nationalities in your provinces. So I am sorry that ya’ll, as such good friends to the USA, have to go through the extra security measures. But for me I am glad that Homeland Security is starting to double check travelers coming across our borders.
Everyone likes to talk about Canadians not traveling as much to the US. Main reason I hear is Orange Man Bad. TDS is alive and well. But I always like to figure out what the root cause, or the truthful reason is. It is because our Canadian dollar is on worth .71 cents US, and falling! In 2011, before the Liberals were elected, we were at par. I have talked to many Canadians who like myself are not going to the US because of our low dollar. Get it back to par, and us visits will explore!
Trump is the gorilla in the China shop. A Russian acquaintance of mine states “Putin is a thug and an A hole; but he is our thug and AH”. We in the West (not just USA) must think of Trump in the same light and tolerate the good with the bad, with Melania smoothing out his roughest edges. Eyes on the Prize which is the preservation of Western Judeo-Christian culture, the continued thriving of Israel (USA’s #1 ally; sorry Canada) and the prevention of a worldwide Barbarian IslamoNazi Caliphate.
Yup, Press. Trump is …. Bombastic! And that is good for the non-commie liberal side. Not soon enough. Newt Gingrich was of the same stripe during his time in the House but only half as loud. I like both.
Howard, Have a safe journey!
Greetings and Safe travels! Aside from President Trump and maybe Bibi Netanyahu, who else ISN’T BOMBASTIC and who else as government heads can you say you like better than either of these two? THERE AREN’T ANY! I love Trump! The world RESPECTS America again… well, at least 1/2 of America, that is. And although Carney is garbage, your Ontario moron Doug Ford is much worse! SHAME ON CANADA FOR NOT SHOWING MORE RESPECT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!
God bless you and yours in your stay in the USA. Good things are often worth their trevail. Trump is sometimes hard to take, but worth it in the long run. His abrasive approach is valid in dealing with the abusive a.. holes of this world. Ford & Carney seem to be slow learners!
Does Canada have any cards to play? So I am asking what does anyone think about which way negotiations should proceed? Trump laid out exactly what his goal is by calling justine a head of a US State. Any coments?
Safe travels to you and yours. Let us hope that Canada will be in better hands when you return.
As usual, we welcome you, Anne and the dogs to the U.S. I do wish that relations between U.S. and Canada were better. Praying for a safe journey.
EXACTLY Howard! Safe travels…I wish I was going with you. Now comes the hard part for ALL TRUE CANANDIANS to FIGHT for our Constitutional RIGHTS. The Laurentian Elitist of the Liebral gov’t WEF, WHO, EU, Iran and the list goes on…want to destroy the Canada we know & love. VOTE the Liebrals OUT next election.