Cathie from Canada: Sunday Funday: Catching up with the news about Iran and Ukraine, plus lots of fun posts, Getting Old(er), NSFW, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Sunday Funday: Catching up with the news about Iran and Ukraine, plus lots of fun posts, Getting Old(er), NSFW, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

We had quite a year this week.

Sunny and warm, then windy, then a foot of snow!

Anyway, it looks like its all over now - we might actually get some Spring around here soon -- so here are my Sunday Funday posts.

But first, a short digression to catch up with the news:

About the Iran War - You know, I was wondering just a few days ago why none of the American media had been talking about the American bases all around the Middle East that had apparently been hit by Iran during the first days of the war. I guess NBC was actually looking into it. And surprise! surprise! The Pentagon was lying about it all along:

Americans are furious:

Those so-called peace negotiations are going nowhere fast:

Meanwhile, in Ukraine
Because Orban is gone, Hungary is no longer blocking European Union assistance

Now for the funny posts

Being ratioed is still a thing:

I did Nazi this coming!

Quote of the day

Its finally time to think about the garden

I asked my son (14) what he thought about us getting a community garden spot this year. He said, “so we can let our plants die in public?” His sister is now my favorite.

- Brandon J. O'Brien

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So much for the AI "revolution" - everybody hates it:

Dare to dance?

A little bit of history

The Couple Who Rewrote History In 1960, a Norwegian couple drove to the end of a road in Newfoundland and started knocking on doors. They were looking for old mounds in the ground. Most people stared at them blankly. Then they found George Decker, who pulled on his boots and led them across a bog. It was the most important walk in the history of archaeology. Beneath those soggy, unremarkable humps of turf was proof that Vikings had stood on American soil five centuries before Columbus. Actual buildings, actual tools, actual iron smelted from actual bog ore, by actual people who had crossed an ocean in a wooden boat and thought this looked like a decent place to stop. Anne Stine Ingstad, the trained archaeologist of the two, spent seven years digging. She found Norse buildings, iron rivets, a bronze cloak pin, a forge. She also found butternuts, which don’t grow anywhere near Newfoundland. Someone had carried them from south of the St. Lawrence River, which means L’Anse aux Meadows wasn’t a destination. It was a launchpad. In 2021, a study in Nature used a cosmic-ray event from 993 CE to date the site’s timber with extraordinary precision. The Vikings had been cutting trees in Newfoundland in exactly the year 1021. Columbus gets a federal holiday. The Ingstads get a parking lot in St. Anthony. History has always had a complicated relationship with fairness.

- Gandalv

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As someone once said, History is just one damned thing after another

And while we were complaining about our snowy day in Saskatchewan, this was happening

Trees actually glow during thunderstorms! Maybe they find storms just as exciting as we do

What a catch!

I'm not really following this round of the hockey playoffs, but a good time is being had by all

Getting Old(er)

At my age, "happy hour" is just a nap. 😵‍💫

- Brad Davenport

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Well, NOW I understand why this happens...

These posts are NSFW

Carney Hat Trick - posts about our PM
Happy Earth Day

At Sikh Heritage Month celebration:

And I don't think Carney would mind me adding a post here about Trudeau, who is travelling the world and enjoying his life

TrumpWatch - posts about the world's most anticipated event
So apparently someone tried to shoot Trump on Saturday night at the White House Correspondents Dinner. And Trump is using it to shill for his ballroom.

It's my theory that the White House staff keep their demented boss happy and distracted from everything going wrong by focusing him on all his little vanity craft projects - like the ballroom design, the used-to-be Rose Garden, the photo wall of presidents, the gold gimcrack, the reflecting pool, the Trump Arch... And about that ballroom.

I've never met a man who fantasized about having his own ballroom. He's basically Cinderella's fat, jealous, bitch of a step-sister.

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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Earlier this week, there was a big flap about Trump falling asleep during an Oval Office event:

Which inspired this great post

Animal Crackers
Good news stories

Hmmm....

We sleep better with dogs, too

But its a really good stick!

5 comments:

Northern PoV said...: Meanwhile Enbridge gets a new pipeline.; 11:25 am
Cathie from Canada said...: Yes, I saw that.
I have believed for some time (without evidence, I admit, because I don't want to endanger my amateur status) that the Liberals under Trudeau decided they should get Canada's oil out of the ground and sold as quickly as possible before it becomes valueless, in a global warming world where sun and wind power will soon be taking over.
I also have never understood why Alberta and Saskatchewan couldn't see this too, but they seem determined to live in a fantasy world where their oil would always be profitable and the Liberals were the big bad wolves trying to be mean to them with those darned rules and regulations - its like the 18th century robber barons believing the world will always value their sailing ships because how else would people ever get across the oceans?
Anyway, that's why I think pipelines now are OK.; 1:04 pm
Purple library guy said...: All I'm wondering is, why does the World Wrestling Federation care so much about monarch butterflies? I mean, it's a good thing but . . .; 6:43 pm
Northern PoV said...: Ambiguity check:
"Anyway, that's why I think pipelines now are OK."
You like pipelines...
or
That's why our gov't likes pipelines...
or
both?; 8:43 am
Purple library guy said...: To me, pipelines have now shifted from a massive environmental and climate change danger, to just a huge waste of money since any new pipeline will go largely unused. The energy shift is happening and by the time any pipeline that's just being TALKED about now gets COMPLETED, it will be obsolete. That goes double for anything whose planned markets include China.

There are other implications. Money and effort spent on pipelines is money and effort not spent on something else, so every pipeline is a reduction in our future competitiveness as we fail to build other things that would actually be useful.; 11:10 am

Cathie from Canada

Sunday, April 26, 2026

Sunday Funday: Catching up with the news about Iran and Ukraine, plus lots of fun posts, Getting Old(er), NSFW, Carney Hat Trick, TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

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