🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦

K, I’m gonna step back from here for a bit. The black dog is backing lately and this place does not help. Will pop in from time to time. Try not to hate each other too much. #SickNotWeak

In 1945 the USS Indianapolis secretly delivered the parts for the atomic bomb that would hit Hiroshima. Days later, mission done, a Japanese submarine put two torpedoes into her. She sank in 12 minutes. Nearly 900 men made it off the ship alive and into the open ocean. Then it got worse. No one knew they were missing. Three separate Navy stations picked up the distress signals and every one of them ignored it. One officer thought it was a Japanese trap. Another had ordered not to be disturbed. So the men floated. For almost five days. No food, no fresh water, burning by day and freezing at night. Some drank seawater and went insane. And the whole time, the sharks were circling and feeding. It is considered the worst shark attack in human history. When rescue finally came by accident, only 316 of the nearly 1,200 crew were still alive. The Navy needed someone to blame for the disaster. They chose Captain Charles McVay, one of the men who survived it. He became the only U.S. captain in the entire war to be court-martialed for losing his ship to the enemy. At his trial the Navy did something almost unheard of. They brought in the Japanese commander who sank the ship to testify against him. Instead, the enemy captain told the court that zigzagging would have made no difference and that McVay did nothing wrong. They convicted him anyway. For years afterward McVay got hate mail from the families of the dead. Some sent letters every Christmas telling him he murdered their sons. In 1968 he walked onto his front lawn and shot himself, holding a toy sailor he had kept since he was a boy. Case closed. For fifty years. Then in 1996 an 11-year-old named Hunter Scott watched Jaws with his dad and got hooked on the 30 second speech about the Indianapolis. He made it his sixth grade history project. He tracked down and interviewed nearly 150 survivors. He dug through more than 800 documents. And buried in there he found what the Navy had left out, including that they knew enemy subs were operating right on the ship's route and never warned McVay. A kid's school project turned into a national story. It reached Congress. In 2000 lawmakers passed a resolution clearing McVay's name and President Clinton signed it. The Navy officially cleared his record in 2001. The captain the Navy spent decades blaming was finally exonerated by a sixth grader. Hunter Scott grew up and became a naval flight officer.

@CDNPolicyHawk Defence influencer? 😬

Got contacted about a job that seemed interesting, did a pair of solid interviews with the hiring agency, got told the employer didn't want to meet me because they didn't want someone with a "second career online". I assume they googled my name and found a couple of the published defence-related pieces under my name. But, "second career" is a hilarious exaggeration.

'I broke the law,' former Manitoba MP Inky Mark says after police seize over 400 firearms. Mark, 78, denies trafficking firearms but admits to illegally transferring 3 guns cbc.ca/news/canada/ma… Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

@MarkBourrie Same. Also very curious what they were hauling!

Holy crap!

@bruceanderson “Middle powers don’t have a coherent basis for alignment.” Besides a common interest in democracy, the rule of law and self preservation, I guess that’s true… 🤦🏻‍♂️

There is a great deal of hubbub about America losing the war with Iran 5 times in three months, losing in Ukraine, led by an administration with a 35% approval rating, that can’t organize a military parade or a 250th Birthday celebration, or resurfacing a pool.

Teneycke: "When you elect leaders who are completely and utterly unaccomplished prior to entering politics and who have entered politics in their 20s, you are going to be very vulnerable to running against somebody who has actually done something with their life. And why Scheer is still sitting in the caucus is the same reason why Poilievre will end up sitting in the caucus after he's done being leader, because he is unemployable in any other job."

@RomanFisher__ Would have been fuck off hot out there today!

I’d love to see this someday

@FredCDobbes It’s the confluence of grievance politics and an obsession with playing victim.

But isn't that what separatists do or at least plan to do? I don't understand the convoy reference. He's a thief not a drunken angry right wing crazy trucker, right...

@sarobertson_ Wells’… 3rd? rule: the person who auditions for the job of opposition leader usually gets it.

Kory Teneycke on Pierre Poilievre's attacks on him and other Conservatives: "His entire ego and self-image is wrapped up and frozen in time in 2024, where it looked like he was going to be prime minister. Now that it is very clear to everyone in the world, except perhaps him and a handful of trolls online, that that ain't ever going to happen, he's trying to recast the decision from 'Who do you want to have be prime minister?' to 'Who should be the leader of the opposition.'"

@Bratt_world Oh, 100%. But this is what I’m trying to avoid:

@jec79 Bringing up the fact he is leading the separatists movement is important tho He’s a treaty “rights” lawyer coaching the public on how he will violate and over ride treaty rights via referendum without FN consent or consultation

It is absolutely essential for people to point out that this has nothing to do with him being a separatist and everything to do with him allegedly ripping off a First Nations client. Because I guarantee the bot farms will be comparing this to the convoy momentarily…

@stphnmaher Also, our women’s team is epic 🤷🏻‍♂️

What a strange argument. Soccer delights us, and we can do with more delight.

@canuck_93259 Certainly not.

@jec79 Awwww did I upset u with facts

For those who have been asking, here is a tangible way to say thank you and express condolences to the family of former Nova Scotia Premier John Hamm.

@canuck_93259 I do appreciate that you acknowledge your crazy upfront.

@jec79 Let's look at facts judges are liberal appointed. Carney met closed door witn first nations chiefs daYs later assets frozen it's not coincidence it is exactly what they did to the convoy first they had closed door meeting then had assets frozen and guess who was involved

@stphnmaher Just because the sub isn’t a *sail* boat…

@jec79 YMMV

This was the best movie either of them were ever in

Like this twat waffle, for example…

BREAKING: E. Jean Carroll's attorneys just received $5,625,005.48 from Donald J. Trump. This is not nearly enough Trump raping Carroll, but at least it's something!

Who has a head of cabbage? Guessing it will last longer than Stan Cho does in Cabinet.