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Early Birds, March 11, 2021

Early Birds, march 11, 2021

Gentlemen, it was another interesting "round table" this morning, with loads of extra things to check out via various Birds.

From Dave Hicks, we received an invitation to check out a series of posts from the National Post. It's called National Platformed and the premise is succintly laid out here: "Canada today needs real debate — not more political correctness and cancelled thoughts." To visit the site and sign up for the occasional email newsletter, visit this link: https://link.nationalpost.com/click/23172465.346/aHR0cDovL25wcGxhdGZvcm1lZC5uYXRpb25hbHBvc3QuY29tL3AvMQ/5b1161d291d15c39d9247de9B4435fc56.

Dave also passed on the link to Metrovino's Wine Journal. The link to the actual journal is this: https://www.metrovino.com/wine-journal. The author's "nom de plume" is Al Drinkle. 


Any Lockhart shared a little SAWS  goodness with us today (Southern Alberta Woodworkers Society). They have an exercise, a contest of sorts to see what these woodchucks that would chuck wood can do with a single 2 X 4 that's 96 inches long using various techniques. After Andy told us he managed to get 5 of his full size, carved wood cowboy boots and couple of miniatures, we admonished him and told him there must be photos or video.


Happily, he obliged. See below.


As one wit said, for a lot of us, it would be close to a masterstroke to end up with two pieces of 2 X 4 that were the same length.



George Roberts was as close to apoplectic today as George gets. Think Jordan Peterson after a few whiskeys and a painkiller.

His frustration was tied to the Indigenization of Canadian universities, and he wanted to be sure to share the article that brought his feelings to a head. The headline was: "
Jonathan Kay: How a single anonymous Twitter account caused an ‘Indigenized’ Canadian university to unravel". The link to raise your blood pressure is: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jonathan-kay-how-a-single-anonymous-twitter-account-caused-an-indigenized-canadian-university-to-unravel.


Tom Olson had a few choice words about the non-Royals-we're-supposed-to-feel-sorry-for, and it led to him sharing this fabulous little video post-meeting with the lovely title "why are u @^#%#$ following me?". 


The boundless gratitude of the female in the video may remind you of a certain someone only getting by in her new $15,000,000 home. Watch to the end.



And with that, we arrive at the recording of the meeting for March 11th, below.


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