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“Et tu, Brute?” - attributed to Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare  No. Not that kind of Caesar. The Canadian Kind. If it’s not yet or still, “National Caesar Day” when you are reading this, don’t fret. The Caesar is a cocktail enjoyed by over 400 million Canadians every year. Or maybe it’s just 100 Canadians drinking 4 million every year. I don’t know. Suffice it to say there are over 400 million Caesars served in Canada every year. I am currently writing a book called “Cocktails For Two: Belly Up To The Bar” that is scheduled to be released later this year. In it, you will find recipes for about 100 cocktails along with many tips for serving them, stories of their origins and related trivia like the excerpt I have included here for the Caesar. Many cocktails were created with little thought and sometimes even less time as a bartender will throw together a few ingredients (with at least one being a spirit of some kind) and unwittingly come up with a winner. Ofttimes an award wi...

 

“You are young yet, my friend,” replied my host, “but the time will arrive when you will learn to judge for yourself of what is going on in the world, without trusting to the gossip of others. Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see. Now, about our maisons de santé, it is clear that some ignoramus has misled you." - Edgar Allan Poe This is a message to all the people that are posting a variation of this on Facebook. By all means you are perfectly within your rights to post this on your wall, your refrigerator, your gun cases or even on your forehead if you want. Fill your boots! (Might I suggest if you choose to post this on your forehead, that you photoshop it so it is backwards which will permit you to read it when you look in the mirror.) However, that does NOT mean that the Supreme Court of Canada has granted you or anyone else the "right to keep and bear arms as a fundamental right of the individual." You might be confusing this with the 2nd Amendmen...

- jim Young “Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.” - Elizabeth Bishop Conservative Supporters Go MAGA I don’t think it’s a stretch to suggest that just one of the reasons that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives succumbed to Mark Carney and the Liberals in the recent Canadian Federal Election, is that too many Canadians, right or wrong, perceived Mr. Poilievre’s agenda to be too closely aligned with President Trump and MAGA. Now it seems that some of Mr. Poilievre’s supporters are suggesting that one of the causes for the loss was election interference. Sound familiar? I hope we are not going down that road which will only serve to further strengthen the belief that Mr. Poilievre and the Conservatives have aligned themselves with Trump and MAGA too closely. At least Mr. Poilievre himself has demonstrated too much class to jump on that bandwagon. Now, don’t get me wrong.  If there was election interference, it’s a very...

 

jim Young “That’s all she wrote! It’s been one hell of a blast! Goodbye - over and out! It’s lights out!” - rod urquhart I hope the title of this column is not confusing. Despite the similarity with the title of Rod Urquhart’s regular column Talk Turkey With Urqey in the GNA, this is not Rod Urquhart writing. This is just me, jim (Dog On A Root) Young writing about Rod Urquhart’s writing. To be more specific, I am writing about some of Rod’s books. I have just received an early copy of Rod Urquhart’s latest book Tales Within The Outhouse . It is a “collection of funny short stories” and the third and final book in Rod’s trilogy of “Outhouse short story books” that began with Tales For The Outhouse followed by More Tales For The Outhouse . Spoiler Alert! You don’t have to read these books in an outhouse, but you’ll be missing out on a grand old rural tradition if you don’t.  This trilogy of books can be just as enjoyable while reading them in your own bathroom. (Your cell-phone...

 

 

  - jim Young In the realm of expectation, disappointment is king.” - anon If someone promised to save you a substantial sum of money and was only able to produce less than 15% of half of what they originally promised… you likely wouldn’t afford them much credibility in their field, would you? In fact, in light of their failure, you would likely think they were pretty stupid. Either that or they were taking you for a ride all along. Musk is the richest man in the world. So if he’s stupid, he must be very, very lucky to get where he is. Yet this is what he has done “for”, or perhaps “to” the American people might be a better way to put it.  PROMISES AND EXPECTATIONS While campaigning for Trump, Musk bragged about cutting $2 trillion from government expenses. Once Trump was elected Musk reduced that promise to $1 trillion. As recently as last March, Musk bragged he was on schedule to reduce spending of $1 trillion by the end of May. Recently Musk has reduced that to just 15% or ...