Stu Murphy

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@kinsellawarren First they lost the rights to the theme song, and now HNIC itself. Every single executive should be fired.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@EdMarkey I'll say it again. Go fuck yourself. Stop sending like drunken sailors and then going after people's money to pay for your incompetence.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@kinsellawarren No. It isn't. And I'll tell you why. You're asking us to admit that every single anomaly is a child's grave without proof. You're asking us to admit that every single child was forced to attend these schools without contestation. There has to be a burden of proof. It's imperative

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Austin Metcalf is dead.

Let’s stop dancing around the obvious.

Austin Metcalf received the death penalty.

Karmelo Anthony received 35 years.

One of them lives.
One of them gets a gravestone.

Save the faux outrage.

The real victim in this case is NOT the convicted killer.

The real victim is the young man who will never come home again and the family that will spend the rest of their lives grieving a loss that can never be undone.

This was a track meet.

A place for competition, teamwork, and sportsmanship.

NOT violence.
NOT murder.

And spare us the racial narratives.

Murder is wrong regardless of the race of the victim or the perpetrator. Any decent society should be able to agree on that.

Austin Metcalf lost everything.

His family got a life sentence of grief.

And while some are busy turning this tragedy into a racial debate, the Metcalf family is looking at the empty chair at the dinner table and remembering who actually paid the highest price.

Austin Metcalf got the death penalty.

Never forget that.

[Jordan Whiddon @jwhiddon4]

As both a Frisco resident and Attorney:

If you are surprised by the Karmelo Anthony verdict or confused by it, please revisit the news sources you trust and consume.

We are often misled and tricked by the media. It feels like it has become part of their job to rile us up. To create emotional response. To divide us by political association, race, gender, orientation, etc. because it turns into clicks and more consumption of their content.

Look past these sources if they speak more about how you should feel about the “news” and not present the “news” as facts of what happened. Find the facts yourself by looking at multiple sources. Listen to the testimony and review the evidence. Make your own objective conclusions.

For example, the facts (in response to common misinformation) include:

1) The jury included numerous minorities, including Asian, Hispanic, and Middle-Eastern people;
2) Anthony’s attorney was a private, hired lawyer, not a public defender;
3) It was and is an unwritten rule that you are only permitted under a team tent if you are part of the team/school;
4) Anthony was not part of the team/school yet went and sat in the tent anyway;
5) Eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, testified Anthony was told to leave the tent multiple times and he verbally refused;
6) Multiple eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, testified that Karmelo was never surrounded/ganged up/jumped in that tent;
7) Multiple eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, testified Anthony put his hand inside his backpack as though he was planning to retrieve a weapon during the verbal altercation;
8) The eyewitnesses, including black eyewitnesses, in the tent testified they jokingly said that they didn’t believe he had anything in the bag because he was in Frisco, Texas;
9) Eyewitnesses said AM told Anthony to leave or he would kick his a**;
10) Eyewitnesses testified that during the verbal exchange, Anthony said “touch me and find out.”
11) Eyewitnesses testified AM went over and pushed him to make him leave the tent.
12) Eyewitnesses testified AM did not punch Anthony or make any attempt to cause serious injury to him;
13) Anthony immediately pulled his knife and stabbed AM in the chest;
14) Anthony then threw the weapon into the stands and ran;
15) Anthony admitted the stabbing to the police;
16) Even the defense’s witnesses said Anthony was in the wrong.

You are free to make your own opinions about the case. But before jumping to conclusions, at least know the facts.

[Wesley Hunt @WesleyHuntTX]

Hey Jasmine…

Black pilot here.

I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.

I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.

Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.

Nobody lowered the standards for me.

Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”

That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.

Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.

I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.

And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.

They care whether the pilot is qualified.

Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.

And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

The Prime Minister billed taxpayers:

$18,000 for salmon.

$4,213 for crème brûlée.

$3,800 for chocolate.

$593 for luxury Normandy butter.

On Only 3 Flights last year.

You get to enjoy the foodbank while Mark Carney gets Normandy Butter

[Kate Harrison @KatlynHarrison]

Okay, but is it a "technical deficit" or a real deficit 🧐 #cdnpoli

[Mario Zelaya @mario4thenorth]

The Canada Pension Plan (CPP) has over 2,000 employees.

Top 5 managers, make more than $5 million per year.

They have never beaten the market.

Nevada has 1 guy. Who invests in ETFs.

Does nothing. All day.

And he outperforms the CPP.

Consistently.

For further context, if CPP invested in QQQ, for the last 10 years, instead of $800 billion in assets, we would have $2.4 Trillion.

VOO would put it at $1.6 trillion.

Lesson: The government will never outperform the market.

So don’t think the Sovereign Debt Fund will be any different.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@JayGenXer @GasPriceWizard I was posted to NB in 2005 and bought a new home in Burton. It had an AC/heat pump. After -10 the thing was useless. The house would never get warm. My electric bill would avg $300/mth. I finished the basement and installed a wood stove the next year. Best. Decision. Ever.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@AbJrogg @J012d4n @ABDanielleSmith I work in the healthcare system. It needs a change. Who cares if people want to pay for it. Let them spend how they wish. Every province has private schools. Trudeau taught at one. As for increased COL, taxes, and wasting money. You're a Lib. Isn't that your entire mantra?

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@AbJrogg @DeanHorninaq @john_Will80 @ABDanielleSmith Well stop complaining about it and just shut up and vote.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@AbJrogg @Pagmenzies @ABDanielleSmith But the damage he inflicted will last generations, and this whole issue of separation is a direct result of him.

[Ryan Gerritsen🇨🇦🇳🇱 @ryangerritsen]

Headlines regarding Mark Carney abusing tax payers dollars since 2014.

This is a man that expects to live like King at your expense. If you think he cares about your struggles, think again.

“I will always be straight about the challenges that we have to face and the choices we must make. And to be clear, we won’t transform our economy easily or in a few months — it will take some sacrifices and it will take some time."

~ Mark Carney - you make the sacrifices so I don’t have to.

[Lorrie Goldstein @sunlorrie]

Still suffering from Trudeau’s policies
Trudeau said big gov't — more spending, debt, regulations, high immigration & more civil servants — would mean prosperity.
It delivered the worst per capita economic growth of any gov't since the Great Depression
https://t.co/l0v8yrFBPn

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@MasterMaliq True religion. That's the best example of an oxymoron since jumbo shrimp.

[Wyatt Claypool @wyatt_claypool]

So in June the Carney government will in fact lose Majority status.

Outgoing Liberal MPs are:

Steven Guilbeault
Jonathan Wilkinson
Nate Erskine-Smith

A big rhetorical fight over committee makeup is about to begin.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@CTVNews @BenMulroney

[John @9781118555927_]

People keep rewriting TMX history as if Kinder Morgan simply “got greedy” or Ottawa heroically saved a perfectly functional project.

That is not what happened.

Kinder Morgan suspended non-essential spending in April 2018 because the project had become a legal, regulatory, political, and financial minefield.

Kinder Morgan explicitly stated the problem was ongoing BC opposition, uncertainty around the ability to build through BC, and unacceptable risk to shareholders:
https://t.co/vRLQ92hdTD

https://t.co/pCoVA5IXy1

BC was actively fighting the pipeline politically and legally:
https://t.co/l71EWVDNGH

At the same time, multiple First Nations and environmental groups launched court challenges against the approval process:
https://t.co/g00MexDx2a

Then came the massive legal setback in 2018.

The Federal Court of Appeal quashed the federal approval entirely in Tsleil-Waututh Nation v Canada because:
- marine shipping impacts were improperly excluded from the review
- Indigenous consultation was legally inadequate

Court decision:
https://t.co/lW5Ci2Nuwq

Legal summaries:
https://t.co/ZWRYtnAVzu

https://t.co/oEkMNVkrsT

That forced the federal government to restart major portions of the approval and consultation process.

Meanwhile, the Liberals were also changing Canada’s broader regulatory framework.

Bill C-69 replaced the old NEB regime with the Impact Assessment Act, creating broader federal review powers involving:
- climate impacts
- social impacts
- expanded consultation
- wider ministerial discretion
- broader project assessment triggers

Legislation:
https://t.co/6hKwhm1Vpy

The Supreme Court of Canada later ruled major parts of the Impact Assessment Act were unconstitutional because Ottawa exceeded federal jurisdiction:
https://t.co/Gm6eMhpd3Y

Legal analysis:
https://t.co/3cA8jTXX9Z

https://t.co/nX7jBZMdtW

So yes:
- Ottawa eventually bought TMX
- Ottawa carried the financial risk
- Ottawa ultimately completed the pipeline

But pretending the investment environment was not a regulatory and legal disaster is revisionist history.

No rational private company wants to invest tens of billions into a project where:
- approvals can be overturned years later
- consultation standards keep evolving
- provinces openly fight the project
- litigation reaches the Supreme Court
- federal rules keep changing midstream
- and political risk becomes impossible to price

That is why private capital stepped back and Ottawa had to nationalize the risk to get TMX built.

That is the actual history.

[Stu Murphy @StuMurphy73]

@acoyne @brianlilley Back in the old days we would call this a bribe. But today it's called "enticing".