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Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Tuesday's Ride - V8 Ford Flathead trike

Are you listening Alberta?

'It's pretty brutal, pretty unforgiving': Why the West should move beyond an oilpatch economy

Petroleum industry jobs are only a good living if you prepare for the bust, which always comes

Perhaps there is no other topic for which I am better prepared to write commentary than the oil and gas industry.

Ask my finger, it's a bit crooked thanks to a close encounter of the steel kind while working in Alberta's oil fields. Or ask my high-school girlfriend — during a dinner in the late 1980s, her mom could not quite grasp the subtleties of me dancing around the fact that our house had been repossessed by the bank after a downturn. Or ask the hundreds of oil and gas workers who have participated in research I've undertaken.

Growing up an oilpatch brat, working in the industry, conducting long-term social science research on its impacts — I am confident saying the energy sector is not all it's cracked up to be.

Importantly, this is not commentary on the workers, families and communities that support the industry. To them, I tip my hard hat.

But after a convoy of oilpatch workers recently headed to Edmonton to counter the public environmentalism of Greta Thunberg, I felt compelled to remind people what they were defending.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/opinion-rylan-higgins-oil-patch-1.5358248?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar&fbclid=IwAR3lG_yelPOK0vPLsrdiuRarXCGYeiyV6fSSeQ2toUoZQBPTMobXTt516Y0

Matthew McConaughey - This Is Why You're Not Happy | One Of The Most Eye...

Springer Spaniel Sees a Squirrel

Monday, November 18, 2019

Monday's Ride - Full Tour | All-New Boston Whaler 405 Conquest

Harper's abuse of power

Harper is a serial abuser of power. Here are 70 facts to prove it.

Let us be clear: Stephen Harper is a serial abuser of power.
Over nine years of the Harper government has seen the most outrageous abuses of power in Canadian history.
Who was the first government in Canadian history to be found in contempt of Parliament? The Harper government.
Which party violated election laws or ethics at least 17 times? The Harper Conservatives.
And the list of abuses goes on.
Link http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/rabble-staff/2015/10/harper-serial-abuser-power-heres-70-facts-to-prove-it#at_pco=smlrebv-1.0&at_si=5d80f69a0bdef362&at_ab=per-2&at_pos=0&at_tot=5

It's about time somebody inside MSM speaks up

Revolt Grows in Vancouver Sun and Province Newsroom over Op-ed Policies


‘What happened to The Sun?’ asks a staffer’s widely circulated internal email.


fter an op-ed calling for Canada to abandon diversity and tolerance provoked outrage, Vancouver Sun and Province editor-in-chief Harold Munro published an apology Saturday, addressed staff on Monday, and issued a memo with proposed fixes to the system on Wednesday.


If he thought that would calm his newsroom, he was wrong.

The offending opinion piece, by Calgary college instructor Mark Hecht, argued Canada should “say goodbye to diversity, tolerance and inclusion” or risk unraveling as a society. It cited discredited reports by an anti-Muslim think tank.

The piece reportedly was greenlighted by Sun and Province editorial pages editor Gordon Clark without Munro’s sign-off. Almost as soon as it was published, many Sun and Province journalists condemned it on social media.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/09/13/Vancouver-Sun-Province-Newsroom-Revolt-Grows-Over-Op-Ed-Policies/

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Guilty - with explanation !!!!! LANGUAGE WARNING

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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Sunday's Ride - SD-1 Minisport homebuilt ultralight aircraft

An Awwww alert!!!

Thanks Norman

Obituary.....

An Obituary printed in the London Times.....Absolutely Dead Brilliant!!t
 
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who
has been with us for many years.
No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long
ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as:
 
- Knowing when to come in out of the rain;
- Why the early bird gets the worm;
- Life isn't always fair;
- And maybe it was my fault.
 
Common Sense lived by simple, sound financial policies (don't spend
more than you can earn) and reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge).
 
His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing
regulations were set in place. Reports of a 6-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate; teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened his condition.
 
Common Sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the
job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children.
 
It declined even further when schools were required to get parental
consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
 
Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment than their victims.
 
Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a
burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you for assault.
 
Common Sense finally gave up the will to live, after a woman failed
to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot .
She spilled a little in her lap, and was promptly awarded a huge settlement.
 
Common Sense was preceded in death,
-by his parents, Truth and Trust,
-by his wife, Discretion,
-by his daughter, Responsibility,
-and by his son, Reason.
 
He is survived by his 5 stepchildren;
- I Know My Rights
- I Want It Now
- Someone Else Is To Blame
- I'm A Victim
- Pay me for Doing Nothing
 
Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone.
If you still remember him, pass this on. If not, join the majority and do nothing
 

 
 
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Ever hear of Pineberries? Me neither


Pineberries: The White Strawberries That Taste Like Pineapple

Revived, ancient pineberries are more nutritious and delicious than red strawberries. You’ll be hard-pressed to find them in the grocery store, but they’re easy to grow.

Around 1650 a sailor brought the first tiny red strawberries from North America to Europe (known then as red scarlets). About a century later, another European sailor brought home the first white strawberries from South America.
It was around that time, 1750, that the two strawberry species spontaneously crossed and created the mother of all modern strawberries: Fragaria Ananassa. Her seedlings came in two varieties: red and white.
The white berries were female and came to be known as pineberries, while the red berries were male and came to be known as strawberries.

https://returntonow.net/2019/05/05/grow-pineberries-the-white-strawberries-that-taste-like-pineapple/?fbclid=IwAR3quHVwA79F5R7Nxj1ww2FYbtcKW5x4ElGI2FJXcFo1uUgw7aiiB7pqc8k

Friday, November 15, 2019

Friday's Ride - Chrysler Sport Satellite

Don Cherry went to far once again

The poppy is representative of the ultimate price paid by men and women in the liberation of people they did not know, cultures they did not understand and languages they did not speak to give them the gift of freedom... 

What Don Cherry's rant did was try to take that freedom away, it added fuel to an already burning problem. When you read the poem it becomes painfully obvious the Cherry did not understand it's meaning.


A worthy read



New Zealand Kea in flight



Katie Kadan Channels Lady Gaga with "Always Remember Us This Way" - The ...

The Wheel Hubs of a Vintage Volkwagen Beetle are Reimagined as a Pair of “Volkspod” Scooters




Link https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/11/brent-walter-volkspod/?fbclid=IwAR10PRhoM78YES9HoAXRk9wmTp8xBEYTFD9fuwqtFtxNH7U396GPG5bqpKU

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THE FRENCH BREXIT SONG

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019

Wednesday's Ride - Renault 4CV Saloon 1958 -VIDEO- www.ERclassics.com

Jason Kenney - For the people


Equalization for simpltons


The Real Terminator

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4-YEAR-OLD'S FIRST PAY CHECK

4-YEAR-OLD'S FIRST PAY CHECK
Here's a truly heart-warming story about the bond formed between a little 4-year-old girl and some construction workers that will make you believe that we all can make a difference when we give a child the gift of our time.  Love the ending! 

A young family moved into a house, next to a vacant lot.  One day, a
construction crew turned up to start building a house on the empty
lot.  The young family's 4-year-old daughter naturally took an
interest in all the activity going on next door and spent much of
each day observing the workers. 

Eventually the construction crew, all of them "gems-in-the-rough," more - or - less, adopted her as a kind of project mascot. They chatted with her, let her sit with them while they had coffee and lunch breaks, and gave her little jobs to do here and there to make her feel important. 

At the end of the first week, they even presented her with a pay envelope containing a $10 check.  The little girl took this home to her mother who suggested that she take her $10 "pay" she'd received to
the bank the next day to start a savings account. 

When the girl and her mom got to the bank, the teller was equally impressed and asked the little girl how she had come by her very own pay check at such a young age. 

The little girl proudly replied, "I worked last week with a real construction crew building the new house next door to us." 

"Oh my goodness gracious," said the teller, "and will you be working on the house again this week, too?"

The little girl replied, "I will, if those assholes at Home
Depot ever deliver the fuckin’ drywall..
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