Duke

IMO the biggest mistep by the MLS was shifting to the european style team names. Real soccer heads probably like it but the “FC” & “Sporting” crap is an immediate turnoff to the average American sports fan. KC Wiz went hard. Sporting KC is gay

Minnesota wildfires continue to burn, with the Bear Trap Fire in the BWCA now 34,422 acres, crossing into Ontario Canada. The other fire that crossed into Canada is the Thumb Fire, now 15,300+ acres. Smokey conditions moderated fire activity a bit, but it also kept aircraft from engaging the fires. The Little Knife Fire burned into Minnesota from Canada and is 30,000 acres. The Sioux Fire is pushing 11,000 acres, and the Camp Fire outside Ely is 4,200 acres. There is a lot of fire on the ground, and resources continue to arrive to assist in suppression actions. 📷 1: Christine Suzanne who’s husband is a Fire Boss pilot. 📷: Tyler Carlson, resident of Ely.

I’ve been saying this forever. But every American, left or right, wants Canada to be subjugated and a vassal state to the US. They all behave exactly the same with varying levels of obnoxiousness.

I can't even...

Were Carney's comments on Sunday about the Gordie Howe Bridge financial split with the US a lie? Did he not understand the deal he agreed to? Or maybe Trump twisted his arm into changing the terms after the fact? There's something weird going on with his comments today compared to his comments on Sunday, and none of the explanations I can think of are flattering for him. On Sunday, describing the financial split within the deal, he said, "We get the revenues, then the servicing of the costs of the bridge, and paying the debt of the bridge, and then what's left over -- there's a split of that for 15 years". That's precise description of splitting "net income", which is revenue minus operating costs minus debt payments. He never actually said "net income", but he did say "the word net does a lot of work in this", which further clarifies his meaning. This is in contrast to reporting which was out before his comments on Sunday, which said that "operating profit" -- which is revenue minus operating costs before debt payments are made -- was being split. The US also claimed, after his Sunday comments, that it was a split of operating profits. This difference matters because splitting the "net income" is basically the agreement as it already exists (there will be $0 net income during the first 15 years). While splitting the operating profit means deferring, or even writing off, half of the money that would have come to Canada as loan payments over the next 15 years. Today was the first time Carney answered a question about this since Sunday. But instead of just clarifying whether it was "net income" or "operating profit" being split, he said the split is "net revenue" -- which is a third thing entirely -- and then gave a definition which matches the definition of "operating profit". I'm pretty sure what happened here is that the PMO had an "oh shit" when Carney indicated net income was being split on Sunday because it always was operating profit being split. But, given Carney's background it's really hard to explain the error without making the PM look bad. So, instead of explaining, they thought since Carney only actually said "net" on Sunday, they could use the term "net revenue" today while giving the definition of "operating profit" -- hoping everyone is too dumb to realize that (a) Today's definition is not the definition of "net revenue"; and (b) Today's definition is not the same one he gave on Sunday... and the whole thing would disappear. Maybe they're right. Pointing out the discrepancies between "operating profit", "net income", and "net revenue" might be esoteric enough that Canadians at large won't notice or care. On the other hand, people don't like to be treated like they're dumb and that's exactly what this strategy does. So, I guess we'll see if this gets any traction...

Does this… bother Canadians at all? Do they lose sleep over how other nations perceive this? Does this now annual occurrence not interfere with their lives?

How's that going for you, Don? Hint: You're not even close

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