Mike Dow

To master oneself requires the Dow. It’s a burden. Please no DMs (I’m serious. If you intend to send a DM ten seconds after I follow back, please don’t follow).

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@preta_6 Yup.

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@miles_commodore No, but I was born in a year that ends in 0. Kind of a cheat code.

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@OleTimeHardball Metaphysical truth.

Also true Schmidt looks stark naked without the stache.

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@Mikehomeseller Edmonton in December.

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A favourite memory: I left my high school Europe trip to visit family south of Munich. My cousin took me to a church full of scaffolding. He said it was to fix the roof damage from “the plane that hit it”. [Lowered voice] “During the war?” “No, last year. Some idiot in a Cessna.”

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@Principal_Jon Cannery Row is fantastic. You have to read it twice.

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@ALadyNamedKatie Us too, Katie.

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@miles_commodore I love this movie, but it’s tougher to watch after you realize Shooter is your dad.

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@miles_commodore

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@fw_naetoblaq Standup comedy specials on Netflix. Takes my mind off the nonsense that never stops, but doesn’t engage me enough that I need to keep watching. Nate Bargatze, Tom Segura and Bill Burr should thank me for their private planes.

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@DawsAngeles Agreed. I haven’t seen them and the tour is skipping my city. I’m thrilled to be seeing them in Edmonton in December.

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@JaniceDean My daughter passed hers in March. Completely normal.

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@Martyupnorth Nope. Never has, never will. Maple Leafs and Habs fans have put self-hating crazies in charge for half my life.

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@ThePewterPlank There’s a lot to be said for competent coaches.

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After watching Pierre Poilievre’s press conference, this is my take:

Canada is not in trouble because of bad luck. We are in trouble because of bad policy.

The Liberals want to call this a “technical recession,” as if families pay “technical rent” and buy “technical groceries.” People live in the real economy: layoffs, insolvencies, food banks, rent, debt, and businesses afraid to invest.

Poilievre is right. You cannot punish energy, bury projects in regulation, tax work and investment, spend like drunken sailors, and then act shocked when capital leaves and jobs disappear.

Canada has oil, gas, uranium, hydro, minerals, forests, farmland, ports, talent, and direct access to the U.S. market. We should be one of the richest, most productive countries on earth.

Instead, we have a government that treats production like a problem and bureaucracy like a solution.

The AI economy, manufacturing, mining, farming, transportation, housing, and trade all need affordable energy and investment. No energy, no growth. No growth, no prosperity.

This is not just a recession. It is the bill coming due after years of Liberal economic vandalism.

Pierre is right to call it what it is. Canada is not poor.

Canada is being restrained.

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@ALadyNamedKatie No.

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@GuntherEagleman https://t.co/MGARU8RId6

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@midnightriderV2 @WhiskyThaFox Everyone needs to stop mentioning trudeau. Canada’s failures are entirely on carney and the self-hating imbeciles who voted for him.

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@Mikehomeseller 6% of voters are wrong.

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@VintageOilers Guy in the white t-shirt is John Adams. A month before we graduated.