US-Canada issues and elections in Brazil.....
Monday, October 05, 2026
Dear Canadians: Listen to the great Victor Davis Hanson
No, we don’t want Canada as a 51st state; yes, we want to trade with you; and yes, your Prime Minister is on a crazed personal vendetta that could destroy you.
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Have you tried listening to Canadian podcasts? Once in a while, I do, and we can conclude that Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well north of the border. It’s comical, but it sadly represents what they are thinking up there.
The problem is that the Canadian political class is barking up the wrong trees. I agree that President Trump took the “51st state” joke too far, but the Canadian response is totally hysterical. As I told a Canadian friend, the President can’t add a state, and people who live in red states like me do not want another California in our Electoral College, i.e., two liberal Senators and 40-something House Democrats!
With respect to negotiating a trade deal, the Canadians have turned Trump into an impossible man to deal with, such as that silly objection that the US wants to kill French culture in Quebec. That’s crazy. Most Americans find Quebec lovely, and I love hearing a hockey goal call in French. What the heck is going on? PM Carney is nervous about the separatist movement in Quebec.
So, Canadians need to get Trump out of their heads and read what Professor Victor Davis Hanson said recently:
We did not say to Canada, you better let in 45% of your current population from foreign countries who were not born in Canada, or their parents weren’t born, and they’re not going to be assimilated and integrated in melting-pot fashion.
We did not say, forego all of the rich fossil fuels in your country. Stop pipelines to other provinces from Alberta, and stress green energy, solar power in frigid Canada, so to speak.
We did not say to you, craft your economy so, of all the 30-something industrial Western nations, you will have the least amount of per annum GDP growth. We did not do it, much less Donald Trump.
He did not say to Canada, you can’t have the same familial GDP as we are. You have to be $30,000 to $40,000 poorer per person and per family than we are. We didn’t say to the Canadians, who are a strongly moral and ethical people, you shall lead the world in assisted suicides — 5.1% of all your deaths, 19,000 people a year — ostensibly to save overwhelming healthcare costs for people who may be terminal because the economy doesn’t support that.
The economy doesn’t support open borders and the amount of immigrants who are coming in. The economy doesn’t support fulfilling your defense needs. The economy doesn’t support fair trade with the United States that’s symmetric. But we didn’t do that. Your leaders did.
More specifically, your former PM Trudeau had a lot to do with it. Furthermore, the Trump administration negotiated deals with the EU, South Korea, Japan, and other strong economies. We hear that Mexico is happening soon.
So why not Canada? Because this is about PM Carney banging the drums of TDS for internal reasons.
Again, get over Trump and do negotiate.
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1966: Moe Drabowsky's 6 innings of relief in game 1 of the World Series
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The underdog Orioles got off to a great start in the top of the first inning of the 1966 World Series.
Eventual MVP and Triple Crown winner Frank Robinson hit a 2-run HR and Brooks Robinson followed it with a solo shot. It was suddenly 3-0 Baltimore!
Dave McNally could not get out of the 3rd inning but Moe Drabowsky pitched 6-plus innings of relief to preserve the win.
Final score: Orioles 5, Dodgers 2. The Dodgers did not score again in the series.
Eventual MVP and Triple Crown winner Frank Robinson hit a 2-run HR and Brooks Robinson followed it with a solo shot. It was suddenly 3-0 Baltimore!
Dave McNally could not get out of the 3rd inning but Moe Drabowsky pitched 6-plus innings of relief to preserve the win.
Final score: Orioles 5, Dodgers 2. The Dodgers did not score again in the series.
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October 1962: The Beatles and their first recording in the UK!
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Over in the UK, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and new drummer Ringo Starr released their first 45 rpm single.
According to news reports, The Beatles recorded the song in the summer. It was followed by Brian Epstein's aggressive marketing campaign in Liverpool. He promoted the 45 at his store and the group's local fans.
Over in the UK, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and new drummer Ringo Starr released their first 45 rpm single.
According to news reports, The Beatles recorded the song in the summer. It was followed by Brian Epstein's aggressive marketing campaign in Liverpool. He promoted the 45 at his store and the group's local fans.
It got to #17 in the UK.....not bad for a group's first recording! Two years later, it hit # 1 in the US when it was released as part of The Beatles' pop chart avalanche of 1964.
The B-side was "P.S. I love you", a much better tune in my opinion. I'm really surprised that they didn't promote this one rather than "Love me do". It is clearly a much better song!
The songs were included in The Beatles' first UK album. They were subsequently released in the 1964 US "The Early Beatles" album!
This is a nice book. I got it from my brother a few years ago. It makes a great gift for any Beatles' fan:
1955: Dodgers won the World Series
Yankees in 1955 after losing to them in 1947, 1949, 1952, and 1953. Of course, those were the days when only 2 teams advanced to the post season.
I love reading everything about these Dodgers. The Dodgers had a relationship with the fans of Brooklyn that no other team in baseball ever had, or perhaps never will. The borough literally lived and died with their team.
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October 5, 1953: Billy Martin and Yankees won their 5th title in a row
Yogi Berra died a few years ago. He was one of the Yankees on that team that won their 5th series in a row in 1953.
Game 7 was tied going in to the bottom of the ninth and Billy Martin drove in the winning run for title # 5.
By the way, Phil Rizzuto, another one of the 12 who played in all 5 titles, wrote a wonderful book about the legendary teams.
The 1998-2000 Yankees won 3 in a row and so did the 1972-74 Oakland A's. No one has come close to winning 5 since!
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We remember Vaclac Havel (1936-2011)
We remember Vaclav Havel who was born in Prague on this day in 1936. He died in 2011 and left an incredible legacy.
This is a bit from The New York Sun:
"The long, twilight struggle against the communist tyranny at Czechoslovakia and the rest of Eastern Europe and at the Soviet Union had many heroes, on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
Yet it is hard to think of any more unifying, dignified, cheerful, enduring, or consequential than the playwright turned president, who turned a protest against the suppression of a rock band into a movement that inspired and changed the world."
Some of us take political debate and dissent for granted. We assume that everyone in the world has that right or opportunity.
Havel is one of those men who risked everything to express his thoughts or to write his opinions. We are grateful that men like Havel come around and remind us that freedom is worth standing up for.
We spoke about Havel with Jorge Ponce a few years ago.
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Sunday, October 04, 2026
A look at Texas politics with George Rodriguez from South Texas..
Guest: George Rodriguez from South Texas.....We will look at the latest from Texas polls and the border districts. President Trump in total campaign mode. A judge stops the border wall. A big presidential election in Brazil.....
CANTO TALK podcasts from last week
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