In church leadership I used to say that all ministries are interim-ministries. Public leadership needs to recognize the same: It is to build on the past, prepare for the future. Anything else is bogus, possible downright evil.
James Kitson
@jrkitson.bsky.social
🇨🇦 retired minister, musician, still eager to learn stuff
To be thorough within his own twisted logic, he should accuse them of being rapists, pedophiles, liars and extortionists, as well as liars, just to make the character transference more complete. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...
Trump announces White House ban on CNN, other media outlets | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump announced an immediate White House ban on a number of news outlets, including CNN.
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As a kid maybe you chanted, “I think I can” as the vehicle you rode in was heading up a hill. Maybe just to annoy the driver with the hint they could use more horsepower. [more>] www.jameskitson.net/knew-i-could/
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The Apple series, Star City, has contraband vinyl of Burton Cummings/The Guess Who with Undun (“when she found out she couldn’t fly…”) being danced to by the spouse of a cosmonaut. Classic Canadian rock in something about Soviet/American rivalry.
I remember the height of the Cold War, when people would ask, “It’s bad enough now, what if there were to be an American president who turned out to be insane?” Answer was typically, “Don’t worry, it won’t happen, and there are safeguards.”
A place where “nothing happens” sounds about right for certain (uncertain) times. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Nothing happens here. You're safe': 9/11 survivors, responders recall attack aftermath | CBC News
Pilots, politicians, hotel workers, bus drivers and church leaders who had a front row seat to the aftermath of the Sept, 11, 2001, terrorist attacks gathered at the Gander airport on Thursday to refl...
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I’m thinking of getting a shirt made with my hours of operation on it.
How to get a situation exactly backward, starting with who it is doing the yipping. www.wionews.com/world/little...
'Little yippy dog' says Bessent about Canada over trade deal with US, slams Mark Carney
Bessent also seemed less bothered by the impact the trade war could have on US prices and said he is happy to debate with anybody on the topic.
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Premier Wab Kinew is—rightfully—making sure we all know Manitoba is not just a name we sound out to get the idea of 16th notes. thewalrus.ca/manitoba-has...
Manitoba Has an Ambitious Plan to End Homelessness | The Walrus
Wab Kinew’s approach involves moving thousands of unhoused people into permanent homes
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…being unanxious is not not denial or indifference, … but a choice of response … New: Unanxious Presence (2026) www.jameskitson.net/unanxious-pr...
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The source of this sad mess is a worshiper of chaos in the ultimate position to cause maximum damage. Any kind of sign and example of his power is his succulent double Big Mac of the day. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Metrolinx, Hydro One, LCBO online maps display Lake Ontario’s name as ‘Lake America’
Hydro One, Metrolinx and LCBO are displaying the name of Lake Ontario as 'Lake America,' following a similar change in Google Maps in the U.S.
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Older tune, aired the past week on CFRC 101.9 FM Kingston, Ontario open.spotify.com/track/1i9qoi...
For Emerging
James Robert Kitson · For Emerging · Song · 2025
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So your friend lives in Toronto, but you aren’t supposed to pronounce the second t, does that make them a Torononian? Asking for someone who lives in Atlana. And is it Lake Onario?
The FACT that Trump’s orcs tried to slide in to the last moment of negotiations control of Canada’s cultural identity is ugly beyond words. Trump attracts ugliness of the boorish Americanism that is not characteristic of most Americans. So why oh why, do the orcs have control?
A leader obsessed with establishing monuments to himself at the expense and hardship of his people would do well do pay regard to the name Ceaușescu.
Breaking: Earth to be re-named Harp. Learn to say, “What on Harp is that?”
What on earth—the place with gravity—was I thinking? www.jameskitson.net/suspending-g...
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His Lowness might want to remember that access to “Lake America” would still be via the St. Lawrence Seaway, lying mostly within Canada. I suppose he would just do a “Hormuz” and declare it American territory. Never underestimate his dangerously childish insanity. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
Trump threatens to change name of Lake Ontario amid ongoing trade dispute
U.S. President Donald Trump said he is considering changing the name of Lake Ontario amid the ongoing trade dispute between the U.S. and Canada.
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Reflection on a song title, including the good and bad of a sense of obligation, while some persons could use more, much more, of it: www.jameskitson.net/obligato-a-s...
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Notable consistency here, in insisting on ways to make problems more problematic, and horrors more horrible—and another way to punish nations who fail to bow the knee to the rightful world emperor. globalnews.ca/news/1202298...
Trump suggests ‘declaring’ Strait of Hormuz a U.S. territory, Iran rebuffs claim - National | Globalnews.ca
Throughout the conflict, U.S. President Donald Trump has alternated between threats of escalation and assertions that a peace deal is imminent.
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Is there an *unofficial* arrival date, or is that all part of the whole time travel theme? I would love to know why so many headlines have things happening “quietly“ or “officially”—when it adds nothing. It is useless verbiage like “literally.” Hmph. www.polygon.com/andy-weir-be...
Andy Weir's Next Sci-Fi Epic Officially Arrives in 3 Months
The new project from the bestselling author of The Martian and Project Hail Mary is a time travel survival story
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Trump announces tariffs against Colombia, after scenes of earthquake damage, which Colombia should have prevented, traumatize American viewers.
Ivanka and Jared are pissed. They had this spot staked out for a resort. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
It looks like a SpaceX rocket did slam into the moon (as predicted) | CBC News
A SpaceX rocket that launched a pair of lunar landers slammed into the moon as predicted on Wednesday, scientists reported, after drifting off course for the past year.
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RFK Jr. releases statement saying that Americans should be getting their information about medications from actors wearing stethoscopes in television commercials.
The Blanche disaster: evidence that anyone who thinks the maga nightmare will fizzle out when Trump is gone is sadly, dangerously deluded. What they’re missing: Trump will never be gone. He may actually be elevated in death. Whatever is to be done cannot wait. globalnews.ca/news/1200744...
Blanche confirms ‘anti-weaponization fund’ dead, clearing path to AG vote - National | Globalnews.ca
Two Republican senators who threatened to block the acting attorney general's bid to lead the U.S. Justice Department said Monday that they will vote to advance his nomination.
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