My wife had gotten home last evening at some point during my latter evening napping period, but I don't know who arrived home first ─ her or my younger brother who had bused off to drink at a pub with one or two of his drinking buddies.
I had lain down around 9:15 p.m. while fully clothed and covered over with just a blanket (the bedroom can get fairly cool, for we keep the window open 10 - 12 inches year-round). After all, I intended to be rising in a while anyway, for I spend the earliest a.m. hours here at my computer working on things that I am unable to find time for during the day.
And I did rise later, but I was subpar ─ far too much inadequate actual sleep of late. It felt like I was courting the onset of an eyestrain headache all the time I was up. Nevertheless, I was probably up until 4:30 a.m. or so.
Yet notwithstanding that, my morning commenced approximately four hours later, but at least I had experienced some needed restoration toward what passes for normalcy for me.
My brother was downstairs with the T.V. on, but I didn't join him until about 10 a.m. Yesterday I had recorded three videos to a USB flash drive and I wanted to lead off our viewing with those via our Android TV Box.
This was actually the first time that I accessed the flash drive just by using the MX Player that is downloaded into the Box ─ it is my preferred player (if I am actually remembering and referencing the correct one). I only this week discovered that I could actually access a flash drive just by using that player.
What proved to be a bonus was that I didn't really have any real intention to play the videos in any specific order, so when I started the first of them, the player seamlessly played right through them all. Had I not known better, I would have thought that I was watching one single very long video ─ I am sure that's likely what my brother thought, for I never explained what I had on tap for us. He had no idea that I had recorded three different videos.
Anyway, the longest of them was 1½ hours ─ an interview of Patrick Wood by British "writer, journalist and broadcaster" James Delingpole. It was titled Technocracy and the Great Reset. That's the BitChute source, but it's also available on YouTube here at present.
To be honest, I was somewhat surprised that my brother never complained about that video throughout the long interview. That's encouraging to me.
I still have not tried to use the BitSlide 'app' that I downloaded into our Box yesterday. It's a BitChute 'app' that affords access to BitChute videos just as does the YouTube 'app' to YouTube videos. What I think I will do is save the flash drive for shorter videos, recording at least three for any one sitting; and watch the others that are an hour or more by using the BitSlide or YouTube 'apps', depending upon which of them is hosting the videos I am after.
Incidentally, for anyone who might not realize it, there is an unofficial YouTube 'app' that mirrors the YouTube 'app', but which does not have any of those infernal commercials that the official 'app' drowns everyone with. But at this moment I cannot recall what the name of the 'app' is ─ I would have to go downstairs, turn on the T.V. and the Android TV Box, and locate the 'app'. At the moment, I am possessed by too much inertia.
Okay, what I next want to write about concerns Canadian taxpayers, and the recently resigned Liberal 'workplace' bully Julie Payette. By all reports, she created a 'toxic workplace environment', and I have had to work in one such office that almost drove me to suicide because of the wretched woman who was my supervisor ─ she had even threatened to see to it that I lost my job in the federal government, along with any pension I ever hoped to receive.
My brother first mentioned this horrid waste of taxpayer money to me a day or two ago, but this morning I was forwarded the following by a chap I know who lives in a neighbouring province ─ it is a petition that I feel any taxpayer who reads about it ought to jump at the chance to add his or her name:
The governor general expense accounts are even worse than we thought.
Julie Payette can stick taxpayers with her office expenses for life after stepping down as governor general. Those bills get big. Adrienne Clarkson has racked up more than a million dollars in expenses after leaving office in 2005.
But here’s the mind blowing news: this isn’t just a lifetime expense account. It lasts longer than that. The estate of a former governor general can keep billing taxpayers for office expense for six months after they die.
You read that right.
You’re actually stuck paying a governor general’s office expenses for six more months after they die!
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s investigative journalist, James Wood, dug up the government’s report on these perks. There it was in black and white. The report highlights a provision that provides support measures “to the estate of a former Governor General for six months after (their) death.”
It's not like retired governors general are being thrown out on the street when they leave office: they already get an annual pension worth $149,000.
There is no way they should be allowed to bill taxpayers for up to $206,000 a year in office expenses after they’ve retired.
It’s a crazy policy and it needs to be eliminated immediately.
In the past few days, tens of thousands of Canadians have signed our PETITION calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to put an end to this shameful policy.
Will you join us?
Just click this link:
https://www.taxpayer.com/petitions/cut-off-expenses-when-a-governor-general-leaves-office
Trudeau promised to “review” this very policy two years ago. He’s had this report for more than a year and never made it public.
The time for reviewing is over - it’s time for action.
Amen to that!
My wife has not had to work today, so my blogging time is limited. I am going to stop here because I still have some exercising that I want to tackle. She did go out this early afternoon after I had sought a needed nap, but she returned while I have been at work upon this post.
She is now busy in the kitchen preparing supper, so in good conscience I'm going to call a halt on blogging for today and go and have some communication with her.
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