Friday, November 8, 2024

this is indeed shocking and frightening and baffling.

i can't open the main site:
a very seamless choice that is outside of government and could fill in would be dalton mcguinty, although he may be too old now. i would like to see that direction applied nationally.

the liberals need to hold a leadership race. the sooner the better.

any backroom-appointed candidate will lose and probably badly. frankly, it's a job few people should want right now.

christy clark should run, but for the conservatives. i'd never vote for her.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/who-should-lead-the-liberals-none-of-the-above-poll-finds-1.7103700
nafta wasn't the kind of election issue in 2024 that it was in 2016. that's an almost ten year difference.

i wouldn't expect trump to care much about canada over the next four years at all, and my advice would be that the canadian government should stand back and wait. if you don't draw attention to yourself and don't pick fights that trump probably doesn't want, he might not even notice we're here at all.
they can't find la nina.

did they call for it? i'd suggest two attempts to call for la nina:

1) to the tune of 'la bamba'. la nina will like that. lala lala lala niiinnya. if la nina is around at all, it will respond.

2) using ernie's call and response, ala that time he went fishing with bert. heeeere lanina lanina lanina lanina lanina lanina. if la nina is around, it'll jump right out of the southern oscillation and into the research science boat, immediately.

at the end of the day, though, if la nina cannot be found, perhaps it doesn't want to be found.

my serious question is this: given the obvious reality of climate change and the observable effect of record increases in ocean temperatures, why were they looking for la nina at all?

la nina will return, but you'll have to recalculate her.

in the mean time, we will probably have several decades of schrodinger's la nina.