Getting Fired Up: Objective Realities….

 Ok, I’m going to go there.  I didn’t enjoy the recent smoke out we had over the last few days any more than anyone else did, but some objective realities need to be recognized:

Canada population, 41.5 million; US Population: 348.7 million.

Canada total land mass: 3,511,023 square miles; US total land mass: 3,531,905 square miles.

Canada population density: 12.4/square mile; US population density: 93/sq mile.

Canada forested acreage: 1.3 BILLION acres; US forested acreage: 823 million acres.

Canada GDP: $2 trillion; US GDP: $38 trillion.

Does anyone else see the problem here?

Canada simply doesn’t have either the manpower or money to clear all the brush or control their wildfires, most of which are in remote areas where few people live and firefighter response is nearly impossible. And the complicating factor? Much of remote Canada, unlike the US, is covered in muskeg and peat bogs. Once fires get into those areas, they will continue to burn until they exhaust available fuel. During the winters, the fires go dormant; there is no VISIBLE flame, but the embers continue to smolder under the snowpack until conditions are favorable in the summer - and they reignite. These fires could be burning for the next DECADE or more - and there isn’t thing one the Canadians can do about it, any more than WE can do anything about the coal fire in Pennsylvania that has been burning since 1962.

And let’s not forget that the US currently has nearly 500 wildfires of its own burning right now; year to date we have had nearly EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND fires and burned nearly FOUR MILLION ACRES right here in the US (source: National Interagency Fire Center, a federal agency under the Bureau of Land Management). The smoke we experienced recently didn’t just come from Canada, part of it also came from uncontrolled wildfires in the Boundary Waters area of Minnesota, some of which, BTW, has crossed over into Canada. OK, so prevailing winds are supposed to change from northerly to west/southwest. What do you suppose THAT’S going to do? Uh huh, bring smoke from wildfires in those areas to us in the midwest/northeast; that was in the forecast today. 

Perhaps not as heavy, but affecting us nonetheless.

So let’s stop and think about what is actually happening here. I have actually spent time in some of these parts of Canada.  Most of them are nearly inaccessible. This isn’t incompetence or maliciousness on the part of Canada; at the end if the day, man is finding out just how little control he actually has over nature.

And frankly, I am tired of Trump peddling the notion that Canada, a country that has sent AND LOST people and equipment over the years assisting the US fighting wildfires, is somehow responsible for natural disasters and their effect on the US as a means of turning sentiment against Canada and building support for his notion that we should annex Canada.

Opposing MI HB 5801 And 5802, Commercial Walleye Fishing….

An open letter to Michigan legislators:

I am writing to voice my opposition to bills HB 5801 and HB 5802.

The idea of opening the Great Lakes to trawler based commercial walleye fishing cannot be seriously considered.  It will seriously deplete our population of walleye, not to mention the millions of bycatch fish that will be caught up in the nets of trawlers.

But more than just offering my opposition, I offer an alternative.

If the legislature is serious about opening walleye fishing to commercialization, I would suggest considering an approach similar to that implemented to protect the Atlantic bluefin tuna industry.  Michigan law prohibits individuals from selling the fish they catch.  Change it to allow charter passengers and captains to sell their catch to brokers to be located in Great Lakes ports.  Establish science based, data driven quotas to govern the commercial industry.  Catching walleye on fishing poles for distribution to stores is far more sustainable than trawler nets, and we already have a fleet of thousands of charter captains who would be thrilled with this opportunity to supplement their income; allowing their clients to sell fish caught during charters would allow them to offset at least a tiny portion of the cost.  It would contribute to the profitability and sustainability of the Great Lakes charter industry, and could easily be broadened to include other fish species.

It’s Past Time….

 DO YOUR JOB, CONGRESS!

Pres. Biden was just sleepy and forgetful.

Pres. Trump is sleepy and out for vengeance against anyone he perceives to have slighted or thwarted him in any way.  He is power hungry on a national AND global scale, paranoid, a malignant narcissist with antisocial and megalomaniacal tendencies, delusions of grandeur, and a hero complex - all stemming from a massive inferiority complex - to which I add possible bipolar disorder. If he hasn’t already gone completely over the edge mentally, he will in the very near future.  He is as dangerous as they come.  That is my observation.

25 - 47!!!

An Open Note To Firearms Manufacturers….

Folks, it’s time to play hardball.

Several states are beginning to line up to outlaw Glock and Glock-style handguns - except, of course, for state agencies and law enforcement.  These states know there are other manufacturers of firearms that stand ready to take Glock’s place.

This cannot be allowed to happen.

It is time for ALL firearms manufacturers to stand in solidarity with Glock.  Bans on Glocks and Glock-style handguns must be met with the cancellation of all standing orders for Glocks and Glock-style firearms, parts, and services.  Attempts by these states to procure firearms manufactured by other firearms companies must be denied.

Going through the courts takes too long and attracts attention of more gun grabbers.  It’s time to speak a language the states will readily understand.

He Makes Himself Out To Be Jesus….

After going after the pope, Pres. Trump posted this to his truth social account.  I’m not catholic, and I’m not a fan of the pope - any pope. But the image Trump posted of himself is beyond sacrilegious; it is downright blasphemous.

Time To Regulate Marijuana Smoke Like Tobacco Smoke….

 https://no-smoke.org/wp-content/uploads/pdf/secondhand-marijuana-smoke.pdf

Why Greenland?

 This is the headline of an article appearing in the Daily Beast 20 January 2026:

Trump Sets Sights on Bigger Takeover Target in Taunting Post

The article went on to deal with Pres, Trump’s ongoing obsession with annexing Canada, also addressing his determination to annex Greenland.

But why Greenland?

Some people said I was “out there” when I made the following observation a few days ago; I repost it here.  With the backdrop of this article, perhaps I’m not as far out there as some would like to believe.

Trump is still serious about annexing Canada; there is no reason to believe otherwise.  Annexing Greenland would be a logical first step - and I’m sure the Canadian government has already considered that. Annexing Greenland would mean that the United States has achieved a practical encirclement of Canada; if Trump so desired, the US would be in a position to blockade the country until it surrenders to him. Yes, Canada has been working to revive the Port of Churchill on Hudson’s Bay in an effort to circumvent the US, but that is a minor consideration in the broader scheme of things, a logistical challenge to make it really work, and easily shut down.

Make no mistake, Trump intends to control the western hemisphere. Firming up control of North America gives him the psychological advantage he needs to implement his expressed plans to push south into Central/South America. It would also create a land mass large enough to rival Russia - and that consideration alone is all the justification Trump’s ego needs to make it a reality. He is out to build his own empire.