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.

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.

Calling His Bluff….

I posted the following on Yahoo; it was rejected immediately by Yahoo censors.  I appealed the rejection, it was reinstated.  It was no sooner reinstated when it was again rejected, with an advisory from Yahoo that no further appeals would be allowed.

So I now post it here:

“When questioned who from Greenland invited the delegation, the president replied, ‘A lot of people ... people from Greenland are asking us to go there.  We have many, many requests from many, many people, some officials too.’"

Ok, we call his bluff. There is a record of every call, email, snail mail, telegram, smoke signal and talking drum received by the White House. On behalf of Americans everywhere, we demand that he produce the records of all the communications he supposedly received from Greenlanders inviting/begging him to send ANY delegation to Greenland or expressing a desire to become part of the USA.

Forget the JFK files, produce the communications logs regarding Greenland.