Casey Slack

Backup lead singer for the 'Stones - Dad, Husband, Vancouver Isler and keeper of the earth. Human Rights and Ethics matter.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Don't worry - Dumbfuck Donnie is playing 5D chess

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

The most socially acceptable way to destroy your life:

Overthink everything.
Act on nothing.

Your mind calls it “figuring things out.”

Here are Eckhart Tolle’s 7 steps to break the loop: 👇

1. Recognize that there’s a voice in your head that never shuts up.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Tom Brady reveals the brutally honest talk he had with a Michigan sports psychologist that turned him from a benchwarmer into the GOAT.

Brady's transformation started with one change: the way he thought.

"I sit on the bench my first year, and I really had—I would call it—a lot of self-defeating attitudes and behaviors. I always had an excuse. 'Coach doesn't want me in there.'"

"I had a sports psychologist. His name was Greg Harden. I would go into his office every Tuesday, and he would say, 'Tom, I like you. You work hard, but you have a shitty attitude.'"

"'How about you start worrying about what you can control and stop talking about the other quarterbacks, stop talking about the coaches not putting you in.'"

"If they give you three reps, you do the best with the three you get. Quit bitching about you only getting three or you going in there with the backup receivers. No one cares.'"

"'You treat practice like it's a game. If you throw a touchdown in the two-minute in practice, you celebrate like it's the game.'"

Brady never approached it that way before. Then "sure enough" everything changed.

"Mmy energy started getting way better. I was bringing juice; I had the right attitude."

"Then all of a sudden, I'm bringing the juice, man. Every day, boom."

"That [mindshift] really helped me get better."

The road to 7 Super Bowl rings didn't start on the practice field; it started in that very office…

[Glen Murray @Glen4Climate]

An Open Letter to U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra

Ambassador,

The infographic below isn't about nostalgia. It's a reminder of what Canadians and Americans built together over more than 200 years.

Our relationship wasn't born in easy times. It emerged from the War of 1812, survived the tensions of the American Civil War, two World Wars, the Cold War, 9/11 and countless trade disputes. Again and again, our countries chose diplomacy over conflict, treaties over threats, and partnership over nationalism.

I have had the privilege of seeing that partnership up close.

As Mayor of Winnipeg, I helped coordinate our city's response during Operation Yellow Ribbon after 9/11. Seventeen diverted aircraft landed in Winnipeg carrying thousands of passengers who thought they were travelling to American cities. Our community opened schools, churches and homes, found medicines, fed families and reunited people with loved ones. We didn't ask who they voted for or where they came from. They were our neighbours in a moment of need.

Afterwards, I worked closely with U.S. Ambassador Paul Cellucci through the Mid-Continent Trade Corridor, bringing together Canadian, American and Mexican mayors, chambers of commerce and regional development organizations. We helped advance his Smart Border initiative because we understood that security and prosperity are not competing goals—they are built together. Ambassador Cellucci never questioned Canada's sovereignty or our friendship. He strengthened both.

Canada has always understood what it means to be a reliable ally.

We entered the Second World War more than two years before the United States. By 1945, despite a population of only 11 million, Canada had built the world's third-largest navy and fourth-largest air force while becoming one of the principal industrial suppliers to the Allied war effort. Canadian soldiers were already defending Hong Kong when Japan attacked. We have never tried to match military superpowers ship for ship or tank for tank. As a middle power, we contribute where we can make the greatest difference, honour our alliances and step up when history demands it.

That tradition continued when Ambassador Ken Taylor and his embassy staff risked everything during the Iranian hostage crisis to protect six American diplomats. It continues today in our support for Ukraine.

That is why recent rhetoric has been so disappointing.

Calling Canadians "nasty," referring to our Prime Minister as "Governor Carney," suggesting Canada should become the 51st state, or treating allies as adversaries does not make North America stronger. Neither does undermining treaties, using tariffs as political weapons against friends or creating uncertainty around agreements that have benefited both countries for decades.

Canada did not become America's closest ally by accident. Nor did the United States become the world's most prosperous and influential democracy by alienating its friends. Together we built institutions, supply chains, defence partnerships and a level of trust that much of the world still admires.

Neither of our countries has a hard-luck story. We have been extraordinarily fortunate. Our prosperity was earned through sacrifice, innovation, immigration, democracy and alliances. That history should inspire gratitude, not grievance.

We will disagree. Democracies always do. But we should never forget what previous generations accomplished together.

The real lesson of the past two centuries is not that Canada and the United States never fought or never argued. It is that we learned how to resolve our differences without abandoning the partnership itself.

I hope we remember that before we damage something that generations before us worked so hard to build.

— Hon. Glen Murray
Former Mayor of Winnipeg
Former Ontario Cabinet Minister

#Canada #USA #CUSMA #Trade #NORAD #Leadership #Diplomacy #History

[OurFaveOnlineDoc 🇬🇧 🇳🇬 @OurFavOnlineDoc]

One of the most beautiful bromance in football history of all times

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

For more than 75 years, America’s dominance within NATO has given Washington enormous advantages. But as Europeans start to pay more for their defense, that will change.

And over time, Americans will come to miss the old NATO.

My take:

[(((DeanObeidallah))) @DeanObeidallah]

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Tim Ryan🦤 @TheSportsHernia]

Experiencing this exact thing for the very first time and can honestly say Larry David handled it with great composure.

Dude could have sat anywhere and decides to sit directly adjacent to me. About to pop his head off like it’s a Pez dispenser.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

I spoke to Mitch McConnell this morning for about 10 seconds. I told him to fuck off.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

An old man waddles into a Turkish bar wearing a girdle, shoe lifts, platform heels, dentures, tons of orange makeup, swollen cankles, purple bruises and a bleached ferret on his head. The bartender says, “I’m sorry, we don’t serve drag queens here.”

[Sarah Saunders 💙🍑 🌊🔥🗳️ 😷 @SarahSaun5]

The world is in love with Haaland!!!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This NFL player reveals the only exercise that sculpts abs for life, and it's surprisingly simple to do

[稲妻のぺぺ(語り継ぎたい洋楽垢) @sukepon2021]

ニールヤングがビートルズの「A Day In The Life」を演奏している最中にポールマッカートニー本人が飛び入りするという感動の演出
❣️😊❣️😊❣️

数々のアーティストに影響を与えてきたスーパーレジェンド2人の夢の共演🎊😎

動画の1分過ぎあたりからポールが現れた瞬間にオーディエンスは最高潮に😳❗️
そりゃそうだ....笑😂

2009年時点で2人はもう60歳を超えているが、その2人が抱き合ったり暴れたりギターかき鳴らしたり...🤙🤙🤙

2人が揃ってからの、心の底からステージをそして音楽を楽しんでいる姿に何故か涙が出てくる😭

これぐらい熱中して楽しめる事がある初老になりたい😌💐

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan

ビートルズ　ローリングストーンズ　ボブディラン

Neil Young & Paul McCartney-A Day In The Life June 2009

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney to Norwegian PM: "Interoperability also means sharing crews. And in the next World Cup, if you could share Erling Haaland with us, that would be greatly, greatly appreciated."

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The United States has sent this 80-year-old man with a limited vocabulary, face painted in orange pigment, hand bruises covered in caked makeup, girdled pants, and indescribable hair, overseas to high level meetings with allied world leaders, ostensibly to speak to America's interests.
But all he will do - like he always does - is insist that up is down and bad is good, and he is smart and they are not, and he knows deals better than anyone. He will recite grandiose claims of wars he thinks he has ended. He will insult his predecessors. And then - in incomplete and broken sentences - he will rant, ramble, and riff ... it might start on subjects of global import but will descend to windmills, witch hunts, whales, water pressure, and whatever, and the audience will roll their eyes collectively.
He will make a few veiled threats, and then - perhaps - dangle a proposition or a concept of a proposition, filled with empty hyperbole, which is intended to enrich his oligarchy but presented as an opportunity, and the audience's eyes will almost roll out of their sockets.
The world leaders that are the recipients of all this are respectful and smiling on the outside but making fun of him privately at every turn. Each and every one of them knows this 80-year-old man - just in the last week - f*cked up a reflecting pool, screwed up America's 250th birthday, and corrupted the World Cup.
They know they cannot trust the 80-year-old man, they know the 80-year-old man is ill and in decline, susceptible to praise and grift, and they know that if they wait it out a little longer, the 80-year-old man will be gone, and they'll have a more comfortable and less risky discourse with someone else soon.

[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

Mitch McConnell is actually the best Metaphor for, and representation of, America and our political system. He spent almost a century making the world a better place for only himself and his friends, married an immigrant while working tirelessly against other immigrants, manipulated the system to increase his power only to be usurped & made impotent by someone even more unethical, unscrupulous and power hungry. Then when the system is finally done with him, they keep his dead body on life support just to use him for one more power move until finally allowing him sweet sweet death while his wife flees the country and his children go into hiding. And when it's all said and done, he'll be best remembered for a meme that made him into a turtle. America.

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

Jeff Beck joining The Rolling Stones during their 2012 opening show, absolutely shredding the Alabama State Troupers cover “Going Down”.

When one of the greatest bands of all time clearly knows they’re in the presence of a whole other level of greatness… that’s special.