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What ‘The Jetsons’ predicted right — and wrong — about the future

Get ready to meet George Jetson — because he’s about to be born.

The button-pushing, flying-car-riding, iconic future man entered the galaxy on July 31, 2022, according to “The Jetsons” canon. While George is having his first birthday, the show itself is about to celebrate its 60th: it debuted on Sept. 23, 1962, a century before it’s set.

That means we’re supposed to be only 40 years away from the Jetsons’ world of Rosie the Robot, toothbrushing machines and apartment buildings high above the clouds.

Never my favourite toon I nonetheless watched it over and over again.

Parking in front of the TV started between 5 and 7 AM Saturdays and Sundays and lasted until Mom threw some food at you and kicked you out of the house for the day.

Playdates were unheard of, hell we used to play on construction sites.

Unsupervised bliss.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•The Future

It’s time for Canada to apologize for slavery, says N.S. senator

In every speech Nova Scotia Sen. Wanda Thomas Bernard makes for Emancipation Day this year, she’ll ask the same question: what’s next?

It’s a question she’s posing to federal and provincial governments, as well as individual Canadians, as the country marks the day slavery was abolished in the British Empire.

Federal politicians voted unanimously last year to recognize Aug. 1 as Emancipation Day in Canada. It was on that day in 1834 that the Slavery Abolition Act came into effect, freeing about 800,000 enslaved people in most British colonies.

Nope. Canada is not the racist shithole its critics claim & did not even exist in 1834. If you must slander your home you had better ask yourself why it is you never condemn African and Aboriginal slavers Ms. Virtue. Do you think white people invented slavery? Are you a racist?

… Slavery in the Pacific Northwest developed at some point between 500 B.C. and A.D. 500, long before European contact, and at contact, slaves were clearly set apart from the existing tribal ranking system and prestige-seeking in the region. Early indigenous peoples also possessed other practices that predated contact with the British and Europeans: cannibalism and the killing of slaves, the latter of which also occurred and for a variety of reasons: funeral feasts, the building of a new home, a new title, the erection of a totem pole, or as part of the ceremony at potlatches. A Russian Orthodox priest recounted how in one Sitka ceremony where a new clan chief was appointed, four slaves were strangled as part of the ritual.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•Canada's Virtue Signalling Class

Savings are slowly dripping away as deposit interest lags far behind inflation

The savings accounts of Canadians have sprung a leak.

As inflation tops 8%, anyone with money in the bank is seeing their savings drip away at the fastest rate on record because interest rates for savings accounts, still largely languishing at around 1%, haven’t kept up.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Trudeau scarier than Poilievre: poll

According to a new Abacus Data poll, Canadians find Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a lot scarier than Conservative leadership frontrunner Pierre Poilievre.

The survey of 2,700 adult Canadians from July 22-27, released Saturday, is bad news for Trudeau and the Liberals, save for the fact the next election is three years away.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Where has the so-called ‘Freedom Convoy’ gone? Don’t look at us — but let’s talk about it, says a new Ottawa group

The United People of Canada, a new organization now operating out of a historic former church in downtown Ottawa, is very keen to talk about last winter’s so-called “Freedom Convoy.”

It is so keen, in fact, that TUPOC (as it calls itself) has booked two whole weeks of discussion to take place in August, in something billed as “The Freedom Convoy: A Community Conversation.”

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Canada's Corrupt Political Class, Canada's Government Owned News Media

The Pope said he’s sorry. So what’s next for reconciliation?

The Pope’s visit to Canada and apology for the role of many church members in Canada’s residential school system has sparked intense discussion over the extent of that apology, its impact for Indigenous peoples and the question: what should be the next priority in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 calls to action?

An apology from the Pope was call 58 by the TRC. But many felt what was actually said this week didn’t go far enough, and one of those people is Murray Sinclair, the former chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 31, 2022•0•Aboriginal Issues, Catholic Church

Tom Cotton Says Biden Leaked Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip to Beijing

In her Friday press conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) remained mum about whether her trip to Asia would include a stop in Taiwan citing security concerns for her congressional delegation of lawmakers heading abroad to show emphasis on the U.S. interest in Asia. According to U.S. Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), though, not everyone has been so tight-lipped about Pelosi’s travel plans.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•"China - Communist Slave State", "President Dementia AKA Joe Biden", USA, WTF?

SPAM goes on lockdown due to inflation

It’s the nation’s crises in a can.

Inflation and crime have gotten so bad in Gotham that even cheap meat like Spam has to be locked up.

At Duane Reade’s store in the Port Authority bus depot, the shelf-stable product — only $3.99 a can — is now being stocked in plastic, anti-theft cases.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•USA, WTF?

The Next Generation of Suicide Bombers is Being Trained at an Islamic School in Houston

Americans have gotten very comfortable thinking that 9/11 is in the rearview mirror and that after Afghanistan and Iraq, we’ve done enough and we don’t have to think about it anymore. Islamic terrorist plots keep happening and migration is changing the country’s demographics. Mehmet Oz’s GOP/MAGA Senate nomination in PA has been a political game changer that has mostly flown under the radar. Gitmo is being emptied. We think we’ve won when actually we’re losing. Badly.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, USA

Bernardine Dohrn Was Called The Most Dangerous Woman In America. Now, Her Son Reconsiders Her Legacy.

In his podcast, Mother Country Radicals, Zayd Dohrn, the son of 1970s Weather Underground leader Bernardine Dohrn, revisits her story.

Zayd Dohrn still vividly remembers the most striking moment of his childhood. “Coming down the stairs in our fifth-floor walk-up in Harlem,” he told me from his living room in Chicago, “seeing these two guys leaning on a car, and knowing right away that they were federal agents.” His parents, on the run from the FBI, had schooled him on telltale signs that they were being watched.

“It had a nightmare quality,” the 44-year-old playwright and Northwestern University professor said. “Definitely a moment of realizing your life is going to change, and realizing that all the things you’d been worried about or been thinking about as a kid were actually happening.”

Her legacy? She was a twisted murderous left wing terrorist.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•Terrorism - Domestic, USA, WTF?

Proposed Liberal Firearm Buyback Program Gives Criminals a ‘Free Pass,’ Say Conservatives

The Liberal government’s proposed firearms buyback program will benefit criminals and punish law-abiding gun owners, the Conservative Party says.

In May, the government said it will introduce a mandatory firearms buyback program, paired with new legislation proposed in Bill C-21, that will tighten gun restrictions announced in 2020 that banned over 1,500 types of “assault-style” firearms.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Gangs Advance on the Seat of Haitian Government Power: ‘Haitians Are Hostages’

Gangs are increasing their chokehold on Haiti’s capital, using bulldozers to raze entire neighborhoods, overwhelming poorly armed police and taking their violence to within blocks of the seat of government.

While Haitians have endured relentless bloodshed and tragedy for years, the escalation of lawlessness in recent weeks and the government’s inability to exert control has terrified the nation.

In just a nine-day period in July, more than 470 people were killed, injured or missing as a result of gang warfare in Cité Soleil, the country’s largest slum, according to the United Nations.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•Haiti

Continental Breakfast

Nets Ignore Biden Building Back Border Wall in Arizona to Stop Illegals

In another embarrassing immigration policy reversal to take things back to the way former President Trump handled them, President Biden ordered the construction of the border wall to resume or at least to fill in large gaps left in Arizona sectors that were left unfinished by his order to halt. And despite the order coming down on Thursday, the morning and evening flagship newscasts of ABC, CBS, and NBC blacked out border wall news.

Jaelene Daniels refuses gay pride jersey, sits out NWSL game

CARY, N.C. — North Carolina Courage defender Jaelene Daniels refused to play Friday night when the team celebrated Pride Night and wore jerseys to support the LGBTQ community.

The Courage played to a 3-3 draw with the Washington Spirit in the National Women’s Soccer League.

Rescued puppies bring morale boost to Ukrainian soldiers

For the war-weary soldiers serving on one of the deadliest frontlines in Ukraine, Chila and Bagira have proven an unexpected lifeline.

But they are not fresh recruits nor new powerful weapons – they are puppies.

“Now we have something other than fighting to keep ourselves busy with,” Victor Yurchuk, commander of 63rd Brigade, told The Telegraph, as he held a puppy in each arm.

The Beginning of the End of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’?

Britain is closing the infamous Tavistock Centre. Finland and Sweden have radically revised their treatment guidelines. But American doctors are advertising surgeries to children on TikTok.

Havana announces blackouts, cancels carnival as crisis deepens

HAVANA (Reuters) – The Cuban capital of Havana will begin electricity blackouts in August, has canceled carnival and is taking other measures as the country’s energy crisis worsens, state media reported on Saturday.

The capital, home to a fifth of the population of 11.2 million and center of economic activity in Cuba, had been spared the daily power outages of four or more hours that the rest of the island has endured for months.

No, really — What if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez runs for president?

As President Biden’s approval ratings sink and polls show many Democratic voters would prefer a different nominee in 2024, some activists are beginning to entertain long-shot options.

When it comes to unlikely-but-not-impossible scenarios, one is far more intriguing than any other: a presidential bid by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Chinese nationalist commentator deletes Pelosi tweet after Twitter blocks account

BEIJING, July 30 (Reuters) – Prominent Chinese commentator Hu Xijin said on Saturday he deleted a tweet warning of military retaliation should U.S. fighter jets escort House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on any visit to Taiwan, after Twitter blocked his account.

Pelosi, number three in the U.S. line of presidential succession, after Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, signalled on Friday she was embarking on a trip to Asia.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•Continental Breakfast

CNN Blistered for Story on NC Town Manager, Police Dept. With Yet Another ‘Despicable’ Race-Baiting Headline

“THIS… Is CNN.” “CNN: Facts First.” “The Most Trusted Name in News.” Ridiculously inaccurate mottos of a “news” outlet rocked by scandal, resignations, and high-profiles firings, and whose ratings have swirled down the toilet at least as fast as those of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•The Media Lies

Is Ukraine Saving the West?

The unexpected legacy of its resistance

Momentous occasions such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine often have the effect of reinforcing in commentators and policy analysts the convictions and prescriptions they had previously espoused. In other words, “I favor policy X, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine only reinforces the urgency of adopting policy X.” I recall availing myself of this trope when it came to the question of NATO enlargement and the meaning of 9/11. I averred that the uncertainties of the post-9/11 world made the case for NATO’s embrace of new members even more urgent.

by Blazingcatfur•July 31, 2022July 30, 2022•0•"Ukraine - Russia"