Farmer Don: man of leisure

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[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

Mr. & Mrs. Farmer Don will be leaving the farm August 5th 2026, when their 11 acre farm site will be sold by completely unreserved auction.
$4k?, $40k?, or $400k
Who knows!
Google: Don Schmeling auction

[0HOUR1 @__0HOUR1_]

😂😂😂🥴

[The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee]

https://t.co/0QSyfCseec "That's our bad."

[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

If we visited Russia from Canada, are there any Moscow travel agencies that would hold our hand from the time we entered Russia, for exchanging currency, getting to our hotel, touring the city, and so on. We are not young single adventurers, we are older more well heeled, but less brave travellers.

[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

Who can crank the Old Drill Press the fastest?
This was the game we played 65 years ago in the shop.
Since then, for FD, the post drill has always seemed the heart of every shop.

[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

I think I’ve found a post farm sale project.

[Cute @cutecorestar]

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[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

@ericnuttall Eric, although it is not as strait in your face obvious, “The apathy of the Ukraine loss to Russia”, and its impact, is also a phenomenon.

[Indiana State Baseball @IndStBaseball]

Just saying what we already knew about our guy @carterbeck2023 😏

#MarchOn

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

Canada: Crying Over Spilt Milk in a Self‑Inflicted Stagnation

Canada’s elite have spent a quarter‑century turning a rich, opportunity‑dense economy into a slow‑growth, over‑levered cul‑de‑sac, and they still insist nothing is structurally wrong. There is no sense crying over spilt milk about past mistakes when the architects of this stagnation are still in charge and still in denial.

Canada did not just drift into secular stagnation; it embraced a kind of virtue socialism and an industrial policy anchored on climate change targets rather than productive capacity, competitiveness, or growth. An economy built on world‑class natural resources, strategic geography, and human capital has been deliberately downgraded into a housing‑addicted, low‑productivity balance sheet recession risk, and the people who did it still show up on panels calling this “resilience.”

For years, Canada’s comparative advantages in energy, resources, and industrial capacity were something to apologize for, regulate to death, or tax into oblivion, while policy and capital chased the illusion that you could mortgage and virtue‑signal your way to prosperity. The result is a country flirting with a liquidity trap, where even lower rates may barely move a real economy suffocated by over‑priced assets, under‑built productive capital, and households too damaged to borrow again.

The real scandal is not that Canada faces secular stagnation; it is that the elite engineered it, denied it, wrapped it in climate rhetoric, and now blame external shocks while the data scream that this is a made‑in‑Canada crisis.

To be clear, Canada’s problems are not the result of President Trump!

If Canada’s elite will not finally admit that decades of attacking its own strengths, worshipping its own bubbles, and treating industrial policy as a morality play have left the country one downturn away from a full balance sheet recession, then they are not guardians of the national interest, they are custodians of decline, and at this point, there really is no sense crying over spilt milk, only over the refusal to fix the mess they made.

[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

“With bombs and rockets, the Israelis tighten the noose on the P.L.O.”
44 years later, we are told the same thing.

Will Time Magazine still be around in 44 years?
What about Israel?

[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

Did I pickup the latest Time Magazine?
Nope,
This is one I received on August 16, 1982
That’s 1982!

[Farmer Don: man of leisure @SchmelingD]

“Israel’s Supply Line”
Hasn’t changed in 44 years since this magazine was printed.

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

Putin’s most successful covert operation: getting toddlers to watch a cartoon bear.

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

The best government is a small government.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is the only picture ever taken of the Concorde flying at Mach 2 (1,350 mph).

Taken from an RAF Tornado fighter jet, the only rendezvoused with a Concorde for 4 minutes over the Irish Sea.

[Jamie Campbell @SNETCampbell]

Carter Beck’s walk-off grand slam for the @StoonBerries ended a series last night. It was great to meet Carter (from Carnduff, Saskatchewan) his father, and grandfather this summer. @wcbleague

[Just Bins @JustBins]

Today at 1pm, Regina's Jamia Masjid mosque tested a newly installed outdoor speaker system for the first ever call to prayer broadcasted in the Queen City’s downtown.
📲 M Anisur Rahaman Rcic [Facebook]