Author: Blazingcatfur

More Dolls Than People: This is What Population Decline Looks Like

America’s population decline is decently bad, but it isn’t so bad that you’d notice anything drastically different in our society. We’re all still groaning with impatience when full school buses make our morning commute a good 20 minutes longer, our playgrounds are still used, and, depending on where you live, it’s not all that rare to see moms at the grocery store with kids in tow.

In short, it doesn’t yet feel like we live in a childless dystopian world. That’s not at all the case in Japan.

Japan has a bit of a population problem. Not only is its fertility rate incredibly low (at 1.37 births per woman) but last year government data revealed that for every one person born in Japan, two people died. Those kinds of numbers are a problem for social flourishing, and it’s starting to show.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inDemography

Trump, Harris, and the Role of Intelligence in Leadership

At Madison Square Garden in midtown Manhattan last Sunday, Donald Trump characterized Vice President Kamala Harris, his opponent in the 2024 presidential race, as “a very low IQ individual.” At the same event, Tucker Carlson dismissed Harris as a “low IQ former California prosecutor.”

Trump’s and Carlson’s remarks tap into a broader discussion about whether intelligence is a critical factor for leadership. Both speakers implied that intelligence, as measured by IQ tests, is a necessary requirement for presidential competence.

Imagine JD Vance as VP vs Kamality Jane.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Residential school report — a 1,000-page dissertation in ‘settler colonialism’

The executive summary is 270 pages long. It’s accompanied by a 638-page document titled “Upholding Sacred Obligations” and her previously completed 256-page study titled “Sites of Truth, Sites of Conscience,” and that just about wraps it up for Kimberly Murray, the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Residential School Mass Grave Mania"

Europe’s German Problem

Today, Germany embraces the ideologies of “green energy” and a zero-carbon society — a society that no longer emits CO2. Germans seem serious about ideology; they seem serious about everything. Once they buy into an ideology, it might be hard to change their mind.

This is how Chancellor Angela Merkel came to power (2005-2021). Many forget that she did not emerge from the extreme green left, although judging by her record, one might think so. She came, in fact, from the CDU/CSU, Germany’s “center-right” party.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inGermany

Why postwar rationing helped boost the health of baby boomers

The rationing that lasted for almost a decade beyond the end of World War Two took its toll on British morale, but it may have had a long-lasting positive effect on the health of baby boomers, a study has found.

People born during the years when sugar and sweets were rationed, which lasted until 1953, grew up to have a 35 per cent lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes and a 20 per cent lower risk of high blood pressure by the time they reach their fifties and sixties, researchers have discovered.

Carrot on a stick?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

Federal Liberals spent nearly $2M to produce podcasts: documents

OTTAWA — Canadian taxpayers paid nearly $2 million to produce scores of government podcasts that few Canadians are tuning in for.

Information unearthed in government documents reveals the costs of these broadcasts produced by various government departments and agencies — some of which eat up hours of employee resources and cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Distraught Rosie O’Donnell ‘on verge of pills’ at prospect of a Trump victory

Actress Rosie O’Donnell has claimed she is on the verge of taking pills as she continues to worry that former President Donald Trump will beat Vice President Kamala Harris in this year’s presidential election.

The 62-year-old comedian shared her thoughts on the election in a lengthy rant posted to TikTok on Tuesday, in which she referred to the former president as an ‘orange dumpster fire’ and a ‘hate-rally manager.’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inWTF?

‘Fundamental’ political shift required to overcome $40 billion NATO spending gap: analyst

Canada will need a profound shift in political priorities if the country is to ramp up spending to meet its international security obligations.

New projections released by the Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer reveal the massive spending gap Canada needs to overcome in order to meet its military commitment to its NATO allies.

According to estimates by the PBO, the federal government needs to double the amount it currently spends on the military under its two-per-cent-of-GDP NATO obligation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Pollster Frank Luntz: Biden May Have Lost the Election for Kamala

President Biden’s recent remark labeling Trump supporters as “garbage” has rocked the 2024 race, and pollster Frank Luntz told CNN on Wednesday it could hand Donald Trump the election.

“The Harris campaign is trying to downplay the effect of those comments. Of course they are,” CNN’s Brianna Keilar noted on Wednesday. “But I wonder if you think that those comments are going to move voters.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024, WTF?

US election weighs on Ukraine’s frontline soldiers

As she sweeps up broken glass outside her shop, Inna knows her country’s future is in the hands of Americans voting more than 5,000 miles away.

“We hope that the woman, Kamala Harris, will win and support us,” she says.

A Russian bomb had shattered her shop windows – a common occurrence in the city of Zaporizhzhia. There’s a 10-metre (32ft) wide crater in the middle of the road.

“Of course we are worried about the outcome [of the election],” she adds. “We want to defeat the enemy!”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Group of Ontario mayors call for use of notwithstanding clause on encampments

A dozen Ontario mayors are asking Premier Doug Ford to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to give authorities and police more power to break up homeless encampments and force more people into mandatory drug and mental-health treatment.

The demand, made in a letter dated Thursday, was signed by Barrie Mayor Alex Nuttall and Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown, both of whom have championed the idea of mandatory treatment in recent weeks, as well as Mayor Paul Lefebvre of Sudbury and Mayor Drew Dilkens of Windsor. But absent are signatures from the mayors of the province’s largest cities: Toronto, Ottawa and Mississauga.

And where is Chairman Chow?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis"

Joe Rogan exposed the JD Vance the liberal media don’t want you to see

He swears, he bakes, he calls other men “dude” – but the most surprising revelation of the Joe Rogan/JD Vance interview was JD’s reaction to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. He said he rushed home, gathered his kids, “loaded all my guns, and stood like a sentry at our front door”. The Republican vice-presidential nominee is what Sarah Palin might call a “Papa Grizzly”.

The three hour-plus, freewheeling conversation with Rogan will not shift a single vote in this election, but it might set the scene for the next.

I think it may sway a few votes as people want better than Kamala as VP.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inElection 2024

Good: Federal immigration cuts mean temporary foreign residents have little chance to stay in Canada legally

Temporary residents will face tougher odds of becoming permanent residents after the federal government cut immigration rates for the next three years, raising the ire of foreign students and workers who have spent considerable time and money in pursuit of building their lives in Canada.

Many chose Canada as a destination because it offers pathways to permanent residency for those with a Canadian education and work experience. But as the temporary resident population has soared in recent years, the competition for PR status has become stiffer – and now there are fewer spots available.

We need to take our country back.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Mass Immigration - Follow the money", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

How the Poilievre Tories think they’ll beat Canada’s conservative urban curse

OTTAWA — Right-leaning parties west of Ontario have been left with just a handful of urban seats after October’s provincial elections, but pundits say this won’t necessarily slow down Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre’s momentum in major cities, so long as he stays focused on the issues affecting urbanites.

“My sense, from people I talk to, is that the Conservatives are still in pretty good shape here,” said Matt Spoke, a Toronto-based real estate investor and tech entrepreneur.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inConservative Party