George Millar, the only founding member still in the band, is 77 years old.
Couldn’t tell it last night. He gave a great show.
Although for the lead-in to “The Unicorn”, he cracked that he was 10 years old when they first recorded it. 
That explains the humpy-backed camel and the chimpanzees.
He was only off by about 10 years.
In 1973-4, I was on my high school’s Reach for the Top team and Will Millar (the Rover in the hat) was the mystery guest we had to guess. I don’t remember if either team got it. Anyone here remember Reach for the Top? Triva quiz how for high schools.
Remember it? We were regional champions.
I see from today’s Economist poll that Poilievre and Carney are tied at 37%. That’s quite a change, but it is anyone’s game.
Yep. I was on our high school’s RFTT team in 1978-1979.
I remember it well. I even remember the theme song. It was a game show with actual difficult questions.
I was on the first, and perhaps only, team our school fielded. It was a surprise to learn other schools, with established RFTT teams, took it very seriously, with some enlisting the shop classes to make working buzzers to practice on–we had to slap the desk in our try-outs to indicate we wanted to answer–coaches, and scrimmages. We all just showed up, banged the desk, got selected, then went to the studio. We won a couple of games, then were beaten by one of the provincial powerhouses. Probably because they guessed the goddammed unicorn dude!
If PP does not get a majority it will interesting to see him squirm.
I was thinking last night, I’d love to see some leaks regarding his actual personal reactions to all this. He had a majority government almost certainly locked up last November, and now he’s watching that evaporate, because of things entirely out of his control. And he’s clearly not smart or flexible enough to adapt to this new reality.
His CAMPAIGN is still under his control, and in my opinion it’s fucking terrible. It’s as if they live in a different universe.
Well, they pretty much do. They’ve steeped themselves in the world of “alternative facts” for so long, it seems they’ve lost even the ability to admit to real-world conditions being out of their control. Their ability to do anything other than lie has atrophied.
They need to come up with actual policies now that address the situation we’re facing, and they’re apparently incapable of that.
That’s the problem isn’t it.
They deny the major threat …AGW…to just about everyones economy and natter on “drill drill” etc. when their populations are concerned about it in a major way,
There is not going to be a wheat belt in the US in a few short years. I think corn will be okay but not the kind of bumper crops the US likes.
Farmers know the score but afraid to speak out. 
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Yet it could be carbon negative if they’d get their heads out of the orange incontinents ass and “SEE”.
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This is a tough job for the CPC just because they can’t really outline a plan for dealing with Trump that’s much different than what’s already being done. I mean, what do they say? The general Liberal approach is the only logical one, and the only one Canadians will accept.
I guess they could attack on the margins, like saying… I dunno, “we’ll do a better job getting the provinces to work together with the feds” but that’s lame-ass as a campaign slogan.
They need to start articulating SOMETHING though, besides just “Mark Carney is sneaky,” which has got to be the dumbest campaign ad I have seen since “soldiers in the streets” and the Liberals were smart enough to pull that one.
I’m quite happy to see the cons fumble their way to failure.
I honestly don’t think they will come up with anything.
Anyone with eyes to see has seen this coming for months now. If the CPC were capable of significant change, they’d have given someone the job of finding new messaging at least as long ago as Trudeau’s announcement that he was stepping down. At that point, anyone with half a brain would have known the whole “Fuck Trudeau” plan was done for.
But the best they could come up with is “Just like Justin”? They’re done. If the CPC party members had any sense, they’d toss PP and pretty much every other Party official and start anew. Alas, they won’t have time for that before the election, so maybe there will be a purge afterwards.
This is what I don’t get the true believers will votre for them anyways tho they will grumble …why not open the tent to the moderate right/lean right which many want…but there is nothing there.
Doug Ford maybe getting there, Charest could. PP?? Harpers lackey.
Will look bad on PPs already skimpy resumé …blew a slam dunk lead.
I’ve been wondering that for over a decade now. I used to vote PC, and watched with growing horror as they moved away from the parts I liked, and embraced the stuff I didn’t. I even signed up to vote in the leadership race to replace Harper, but my guy, who I thought was the most moderate candidate, stalled out with about the same number of votes as the more racist candidate. I had been voting strategically up to then, but that was the moment I pretty much gave up on them entirely.
More on that French nuclear sub in Halifax harbour …
I’m reminded of a story I read once. It was in the form of a series of “friendly” letters between two governments. They never explicitly made any threats, but they did say things like, “You’ll be pleased to know that we were successful in our tests of the new X-7 missile system, which has a range of 300 miles. For comparison, that is slightly longer than the distance between our base at Anytown, and your capital city…”
You are not far off
Yes, France has nuclear missile submarines, specifically the Le Triomphant-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), which are part of the French Navy’s strategic oceanic force, and are equipped with M51 missiles.