Canada Slaps Tariffs on Flamethrowers, Manatee Meat, Fake Beards, and Live Monkeys in Response to Trump
Breitbart | 31 Mar 2025 | John HaywardCanada slapped 25 percent tariffs on about 1,800 American products in March, and will implement 4,400 more on April 2, the day President Donald Trump plans to announce higher tariffs against every country that taxes U.S. imports.
Many of Canada’s tariffs are bizarrely targeted at imports that are virtually nonexistent, leading critics to suspect the list has been padded with nonsense to make the Canadian response look much tougher than it really is.
CTV on Sunday listed some of the “odd and obscure” imports targeted by Canada, including “flamethrowers, false beards, church bell cases, and live monkeys,” plus “manatee meat and passenger drones.”
Canadians will soon find themselves paying more for imported American accordion parts, emus, bovine semen, and clothing made with asbestos fibers.
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Thousands of People Dying Each Day Worldwide
Today’s Ireland Bashing
Erin’s Gone, Bruh.
Irish Government Freezes Christian Teacher’s Bank Account After He Refused to Use Gender-Neutral Pronouns
Caldron Pool | Mar 31, 2025The Irish government has frozen the bank account of an Irish teacher after his continued refusal to use gender-neutral pronouns for a student at Wilson’s Hospital School. Enoch Burke, who has spent more than 500 days in jail for refusing to comply with a court order, also had his salary payments halted.
Burke attempted to withdraw funds from his Bank of Ireland account last week but found that he was unable to access his money. The account reportedly holds over €40,000—his personal savings from years of work. The Irish government and courts have frozen these funds and are set to seize them next week.
Burke was previously jailed for contempt of court after refusing to comply with an injunction barring him from entering Wilson’s Hospital School, where he had been suspended following a dispute over the use of transgender pronouns.
The freezing of his bank account marks an unprecedented escalation in the legal battle. Burke maintains that he was upholding the Christian ethos of his school and acting according to his beliefs. The Irish courts have ruled against him at multiple stages, leading to fines, jail time, and now the freezing of his assets.
“What this is all about is an attempt to change the face of our country and to exalt LGBTQ+ ideology above Christian belief–to do away with religious belief altogether,” Burke said in a video update posted on X. “Children are being told they decide their gender. That is an anti-Christian belief.
“It’s not me that should be criminalised today, it’s any teacher that will stand in front of a class and will encourage young children to accept a belief that is anti-Christian…”
While this could just be the Irish government enforcing fines that have already been adjudicated, I doubt they would fine and jail a Muslim teacher for refusing to espouse ideas counter to their religious beliefs. There has to be accommodation for cases like this.
Local Man Arrested for Threatening To Shoot the Breeze, Shoot the Works, and Shoot the Rapids
C You, Now Thursday
Your challenge: to create a new word or phrase that begins with C.
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Cloney, George: About half the guys on Hollywood Boulevard.
— See also: Tom crews
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Correction: An insult. When an institution, an institution that corrects nothing.
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Anyone getting one of these into the online Urban Dictionary wins an automatic Harvey Award.
Maybe the Stones Were Prescient?
Federal Judges Must Stop Easter From Coming — But How?
Straight Line of the Day: If They Defund PBS and NPR, the Result Will Be…
GOP Bill Seeks to Cut Off NPR and PBS: “Taxpayers Shouldn’t Fund Propaganda”
Daily Fetched | March 29, 2025 | Jason WalshRep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) introduced a bill to fully defund NPR and PBS during a viral congressional hearing this week, calling the taxpayer-funded outlets “propaganda machines for the radical left.”
The move came after a House Subcommittee on Government Efficiency hearing Wednesday, where NPR CEO Katherine Maher was brutally grilled by GOP lawmakers for the outlet’s deep-seated liberal bias while taking taxpayers’ money.
Jackson’s bill—titled the “No Partisan Radio and Partisan Broadcasting Services Act” or the “NPR and PBS Act”—seeks to eliminate federal funding for both NPR and PBS.
“Hardworking Americans are sick of footing the bill,” Jackson told Fox News Digital.
“It’s time to cut them off and stop forcing taxpayers to pay for their liberal lies!”
“Though NPR and PBS were originally founded to produce non-biased, informational, and educational content, the outlets have since turned into taxpayer-funded propaganda machines for the radical left,” he added.
It’s April: Man Continues To Write “2024” on Checks
Today’s UK Bashing
UK businesses leaving and moving to the US
Sky News Australia | 3.25.2025 | Sky News AustraliaStrelmark President Hilary Fordwich says politicians should know “how to run a business” before coming into power.
UK Labour has been accused of being anti-business after reports of more than 200,000 businesses have folded since they took power.
Ms Fordwich told Sky News Digital Presenter Gabriella Power that businesses are “leaving” the UK and moving to the US.
Politicians should also know “how to run basic freedoms of expression” before coming into power.
Parents arrested by Hertfordshire police for complaining about daughter’s school
The Guardian | March 29, 2025 | Daniel LavelleThe parents of a nine-year-old girl have said they were held at a police station for 11 hours because they complained about their daughter’s primary school.
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Allen, a Times Radio producer, said six police officers turned up at his home on 29 January.
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Allen had reportedly communicated to the school in May 2024 regarding the recruitment of a new headteacher but his queries were rejected.
The school’s governors then reportedly wrote to the parent body about “inflammatory and defamatory” comments on social media, warning that the school would take action against anyone who caused “disharmony”.
B Itch Needs To Be Scratched
Straight Line of the Day: As Scotty T Has Pointed Out, Someday This Internet Thing Is Going To End. What Will Replace It?
Science Thoughts
Gravity: mysterious, attractive, always available. Like Ginger. Always pulling in one direction. I’ll leave this PG.
I think that scientists posited “gravitons” as conveying this force . . . and they’re weightless, like photons.
Then they posited “anti-gravitons.” Maybe even made some out of quarks in a lab. It’s evident I don’t follow this stuff enough for a guy who writes about science thoughts.
The point is, I’d love to have a tankful of those anti-gravitons to power a George Jetson car.
The problem, as I see it:
How do you turn them off? I mean, do you go off through the universe anti-gravitying your way away from matter?
It’s similar to time travel: if you move through time, do you leave the Earth behind after two seconds and end up in space?
I’m going to leave these problems to the science guys. I’ve got enough to worry about.
April Is The Cruelest Month
My legendary success with the introduction of “y’all deepin’ me” to the vernacular has inspired me to give y’all an equal chance to deepen the language.
Therefore:
For twenty-six days, I will give you the challenge (remember: every challenge is an opportunity) of creating a new word, using a letter of the alphabet. I apologize to those who identify as living in ancient Egypt: it just wouldn’t work.
Thus:
I can’t call this “Bibliosleaga,” but please create a made-up word that begins with “A.” I guess you ought to define it, too, or else this could just become Bidenesque.
I’ll begin:
Ah-no-I-don’t-think-so: Interjection. Commonly used with men, but not with women.
Attathey: Modern expression of encouragement.
AproPOS: Referring to a POS.