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Their utter lack of courage tells you everything you need to know

Apple renamed Lake Ontario "Lake America" on its Maps app — and employees are furious. Insiders say leadership is "resigned" to these concessions, understanding Trump "will f--- with the company if the company doesn't do what he wants." bit.ly/4zK114i

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— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) September 2, 2026 at 3:00 PM

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Putting the Royal in Royal Canadian Mounties

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Heckuva job, Donnie

Over the past year, the number of Canadians visiting the US has dropped 25% compared with 2024. Are discounts enough to lure them back? ft.trib.al/zk0l5Lk

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— Financial Times (@financialtimes.com) August 30, 2026 at 5:03 PM

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What a fucking pathetic wimp

Tough guy Hegseth stoops to bullying Canadian teens www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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— Ray Beckerman (@raybeckerman.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM

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There are a lot of smart people in Canda, eh?

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Always comes back to Epstein...

Lake America is the pedophile name for Lake Ontario.

— Secret Agent Number Six (@designationsix.bsky.social) August 31, 2026 at 4:07 PM

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Putting the Great in Great White North

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Putting the great in the Great White North

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Famous final words...

US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer on a trade war with Canada: "There's no possible way it can really affect US well-being"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 24, 2026 at 12:20 PM

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So much to bitch slap, so little time

Let’s just call it Lake Natalie so we know you’ll start protecting our Great Lakes.

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— Rep. Debbie Dingell (@debbiedingell.house.gov) August 25, 2026 at 10:10 AM

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And now Canada bitch slaps Trump

NEWS: Canada is hitting back at Trump’s escalating trade war with new tariffs on more than 700 U.S. goods worth $27.6 billion Canadian, or roughly $20 billion USD. The counter-tariffs will take effect September 8. Canada is also rolling out new support for workers impacted by the trade war.

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) August 25, 2026 at 12:34 PM

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Just when you think Trump couldn't possibly be a bigger fucking moron...

Trump posts a graphic showing Lake Ontario renamed as "Lake America"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) August 25, 2026 at 10:26 AM

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Another colossal fuck up by Trump

"Canada has all the resources we need to pivot and to prosper." "[the United States] is trying to break us so they can own us. Canada is becoming stronger and less dependent on [the US]. We are already giving ourselves more than they can take away. And we are just getting started." #cdnpoli

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— Anonymous (@youranoncentral.bsky.social) August 22, 2026 at 4:13 PM

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ALL of them

Bingo! All the Scandinavian Democratic Socialist Countries have higher satisfaction and happiness indexes than the US.

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— NauticalN (@watermaidens.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM

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Ready?

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Trump first, Michigan second

A beautiful bridge, fully built, ready to open, much needed and long awaited, now sits unused because the owner of the older, smaller, more run down toll bridge nearby bribed the president to stop it from opening. So Trump got paid AND got a chance to punish both Canada and Detroit.

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— Khashoggi's Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) June 16, 2026 at 5:15 PM

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Trump did this

The US had a 5.5% drop in overseas tourism and a loss of 4 million foreign visitors in 2025 the sharpest annual drop in inbound foreign travel in roughly 20 years costing the US economy over $8 billion in foreign spending w/the largest drop coming from Canada www.thedailybeast.com/tourists-boy...

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— Rebecca (Becca) (@beccajt.bsky.social) May 25, 2026 at 4:54 PM

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Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DXCI--Ian and Sylvia: Four Strong Winds

Oh to live on Sugar Mountain, with the barkers and the colored balloons, you can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain, though you're thinking that...I'm (eight days) late again....

My introduction to this week's tune came when I was writing my first post about Neil Young (here).  As I did my weekly half-assed research, I discovered that Young was much smitten with this song as a young man and how much it influenced his career, so I gave it a listen.  Turns out, it was a hell of a song even if I didn't discover until I did my half-assed research this week that it wasn't a solo effort but rather a duo....

Ian and Sylvia began performing as a duo in 1959, were married in 1964, and divorced and stopped performing together in 1975.  Ian Tyson set out to be a rodeo performer, but while recuperating from injuries incurred while striving for that goal, he learned the guitar and it eventually led to a long career.  Sylvia Tyson (nee Fricker) began playing in clubs in Toronto at the ripe old age of nineteen before meeting up with Ian and forming their duo.  They had some success, mostly in their native Canada, before their divorce and their band Great Speckled Bird (formed in 1969) is considered one of the progenitors of country rock.  After their demise, Ian raised horses and performed sporadically as a solo artist; Sylvia became a solo artist before joining Quartette in 1993 and later performing one-woman shows.  Along the way they were inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame as a duo, and both were also inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame individually.  For their career as a duo, they released twelve studio albums, one live album, and six singles.  Ian passed away in 2022, but Sylvia is still performing and released her latest album in 2023.

"Four Strong Winds" was the first single from their 1963 album, the rather uniquely titled Four Strong Winds (again no Wikipedia entry--again, WTF?).  The single did not chart in America but hit #9 in Canada (so many cool kids in the Great White North!).  The album hit #115 on the Billboard 200 but surprisingly did not chart in their homeland.

Fun Fact:  In a poll conducted by the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 2005, "Four Strong Winds" was voted the greatest Canadian song of all time.  That's a pretty damn good legacy.

Fun Fact #2:  "Four Strong Winds" was the first song Ian Tyson ever wrote.  Their other charting hit in Canada (it reached #4 and through the years has become something of a folk standard), "You Were on My Mind," was likewise the first song that Sylvia Tyson wrote.  Talk about your strong starts....

"Four Strong Winds" may be one of the saddest songs ever written.  It tells the tale of a man heading out to find a job and leaving a relationship that's over.  But he still holds out hope--but nope they've gone over it again and again.  Maybe when he gets where he's going (Alberta) he can send her fare--but nope, it'll be very cold in the winter and not much to do.  But he still knows he'll go looking for her if he ever comes back--but regardless of his sadness the world is going to keep spinning.  Ian Tyson sings with the plaintive voice of a man who's still in love but knows his love will be unrequited.  Sylvia Tyson provides backing vocals throughout that seem to only deepen his sorrow.  Softly sung, softly performed, and acoustic from beginning to end--if this one isn't a modern (ish) folk classic I don't know what is.  A beautiful, beautiful song (says the old fart folkie...).

Lyric Sheet: "Still I wish you'd change your mind/If I ask you one more time/But we've been through this a hundred times or more..."

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Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. DLXXXIII--Neil Young: The Needle and the Damage Done

She said, hey babe, take a walk on the wild side, and the coloured girls go...I'm (seventeen days late, a new Friday Night Jukebox record!) late again....

My introduction to this week's tune came one Christmas in the late seventies (couldn't remember which one, though 1978 would be my guess) when my parents bought me this week's artist's triple album greatest hits, Decade.  I was just beginning to learn there was a lot more to life than they taught me in high school, and simultaneously that there was a lot more to rock and roll than top forty radio, and that album opened my eyes even wider to both.  And I'll never forget Young's self-penned liner note about this week's song:  "I am not a preacher, but drugs killed a lot of great men."  Just as true today....

I've written about Neil Young as a solo artist twice before (here and here) and once as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young for the greatest protest song every written, "Ohio."  In the little more than a year since I last wrote about him, Young has released two albums (one of which has been in the vaults since the 1970's) and headlined the Glastonbury Festival.  Even better, last year he released another protest song, "Big Crime," which he wrote in response to Donald Trump, piece of shit that he is, sending the National Guard into Washington D.C.  One of its lyrics was "Got to get the fascists out, got to clean the White House out...."  Bravo, Mr. Young!

"The Needle and the Damage Done" was originally released in 1972 on Young's rather accumulatively named album, Harvest.  The song was released as the B-side of Young's single "Old Man" which peaked at #31 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100 (it reached #4 in Young's native Canada--so many cool kids in the Great White North!), The album was the only #1 of his career.

(Not so) Fun Fact:  Young wrote the song about the effects of heroin addiction on musicians he knew, including his Crazy Horse guitarist Danny Whitten.  Sadly, Whitten would die of an overdose the same year the song was released.  Even worse, the next year Young's roadie Bruce Berry also died of an overdose.

"The Needle and the Damage Done" is two minutes of sheer fucking brilliance.  Rather than record a studio version, Young used a version he'd performed in concert, just him and his guitar, for the album release. The sparseness of the show strips the song to its bare essence which captures both the song's beauty and its sorrow.  Neil Young has written a lot of great songs, but this is his greatest.  The lyrics reveal Young's compassion for these troubled folks and avoids even the slightest hint of self-righteousness as he chronicles heroin addiction and the chains with which it wraps up its victims.  Young's vocals are spare, honest, and convey the tragedy he has seen unfolding around him.  Add in Young's beautiful melody, picked adeptly on his acoustic guitar, and you have a masterpiece, a short story in song. 

Lyric Sheet:  "I've seen the needle and the damage done/A little part of it in everyone/But every junkie's like a settin' sun..."

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