So I use to have a Blog at a different location but it was hit or miss if I could even log in each day there as more often then not the servers seemed to be down.
When I eventually made this blog here, I had been unable to log into my other blog for over 2 months straight.
I figured the content there was lost and done
but I recently took a chance and hit a link over there and much to my surprise I was at least able to goto the blog page itself (forget about entering as admin to handle blog like that).
So happily I was able to recover the posts and articles I wanted to from it
They include my foster period with Speckles and some great stories about Rascal and Furball. Along with some other stuff.
ALLOT of that blog content seems to be missing as well but at least some of it was recoverable
So if you are interested take a look in the Animal Section, Andrew Section, and Politics Section for those old stories and pictures. Make sure you scroll to bottom of each page.
Some are guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
Enjoy
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Growing older and wiser? Depends who you ask I guess.
About a year ago one of those stupid Facebook threads that you comment on and then given a topic to share forward was going around. So against my better judgement I commented on it (normally I stay far away from those silly mindless things) and was given the letter P. So I posted it and a longtime friend replied with "Political" and then followed up saying I have become much more political since moving out East.
At first I was defensive because Rick and I had always spoken about politics over daily routine coffee sessions when I lived in Edmonton. Issues ranging from teachers unions to Provincial budget, to heritage Trust fund, to really anything in news that day. Really the only difference being now was that we had access to much much much more information happening around the world thanks to the internet. Back then, while we both were very active in computers in our own right, the internet still wasn't the sounding board it would turn into. So most of our information still came from The Edmonton Sun newspaper and what we heard on radio and word of mouth.
So with limited information coming in, the discussions were less focused and less defined on our part as we simply did not have the mounds of information available to us today.
So in that sense I still maintain I have not become more political then I was back then. I just have more issues regarding politics to speak about now. More access to greater amount of content always means greater time spent on content.
That was my initial response to the claim.
But its stuck in my head, back of my mind, nagging at me since then.
Had I become more political as I grow older and why?
And in truth I very well may have.
See in Alberta in the 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s you lived in a bubble. You knew your opinions (speaking mass population generality here) were different then those of rest of Canada. What you did not know or perhaps did not understand is how much different they were. And THAT part might have been the big eye opener for me when I moved out East and very well might drive my recently fueled interest in politics.
I always tell this story to people out here when they ask me how different was Alberta compared to Toronto...
At first I was defensive because Rick and I had always spoken about politics over daily routine coffee sessions when I lived in Edmonton. Issues ranging from teachers unions to Provincial budget, to heritage Trust fund, to really anything in news that day. Really the only difference being now was that we had access to much much much more information happening around the world thanks to the internet. Back then, while we both were very active in computers in our own right, the internet still wasn't the sounding board it would turn into. So most of our information still came from The Edmonton Sun newspaper and what we heard on radio and word of mouth.
So with limited information coming in, the discussions were less focused and less defined on our part as we simply did not have the mounds of information available to us today.
So in that sense I still maintain I have not become more political then I was back then. I just have more issues regarding politics to speak about now. More access to greater amount of content always means greater time spent on content.
That was my initial response to the claim.
But its stuck in my head, back of my mind, nagging at me since then.
Had I become more political as I grow older and why?
And in truth I very well may have.
See in Alberta in the 60s, 70s, 80s, even 90s you lived in a bubble. You knew your opinions (speaking mass population generality here) were different then those of rest of Canada. What you did not know or perhaps did not understand is how much different they were. And THAT part might have been the big eye opener for me when I moved out East and very well might drive my recently fueled interest in politics.
I always tell this story to people out here when they ask me how different was Alberta compared to Toronto...
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Follow up to last post. TSX drops over 200 points at opening in reaction to NDP taking power in Alberta
Toronto Stock Exchange drops nearly 200 points in early trading
Several of Canada's biggest oil and gas companies were down about four per cent in heavy trading
The Toronto stock market started Wednesday with a triple-digit drop, with energy stocks leading the decline.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down 198.46 points at 14,975.48 about half an hour after the market opened.
The market's energy sector was down the most, with a three per cent decline.
Several of Canada's biggest oil and gas companies were down about four per cent in heavy trading.
Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CME Markets Canada, says investors are reacting to the uncertainty stemming from the change in government in Alberta, where the NDP won a majority.
The NDP campaigned on a number of promises including corporate tax hikes and a review of the province's royalty regime.
The Toronto stock market's decline Wednesday morning follows a 193.53 point plunge on Tuesday.
The loonie was doing much better, up more than half a U.S. cent Wednesday morning.
The Canadian dollar was worth 83.40 cents US, up 0.56 of a U.S. cent from Tuesday's close.
The S&P/TSX composite index was down 198.46 points at 14,975.48 about half an hour after the market opened.
The market's energy sector was down the most, with a three per cent decline.
Several of Canada's biggest oil and gas companies were down about four per cent in heavy trading.
Colin Cieszynski, chief market strategist at CME Markets Canada, says investors are reacting to the uncertainty stemming from the change in government in Alberta, where the NDP won a majority.
The NDP campaigned on a number of promises including corporate tax hikes and a review of the province's royalty regime.
The Toronto stock market's decline Wednesday morning follows a 193.53 point plunge on Tuesday.
The loonie was doing much better, up more than half a U.S. cent Wednesday morning.
The Canadian dollar was worth 83.40 cents US, up 0.56 of a U.S. cent from Tuesday's close.
Source Newstalk 1010
So that's interesting.
Federally business has faith in Harper and Cons and dollar rebounded with a strong rise but in that one area of Canada the market lost faith almost instantly over night
but yet the Left Wing media and NDP supporters will call this Right Wing scare tactics (which by teh way is why I am linking to a ultra left wing radio station report)
Tell me again how the NDP is going to help Alberta and no one really thinks they are anti business.
And you get money, and you get money, and you get money, and you get well er sorry were out of money, blame big business
So its no big surprise I think that I still follow Alberta politics and have a personal interest in the province doing well. I have family there. I have friends there. I even still to this day "had" planed to move back there at a certain point (this election might effect that in the long term but to early to tell on that front). Alberta has always been my home.
Until yesterday that is.
Now I am truly fearful of the future for my family, friends, even acquaintances because the REAL HISTORY regarding the consequences for the foolish actions of last nights election have been widely ignored by very ill informed (or out right uninformed) voters.
Alberta entered the election to RIGHTFULLY punish the PC Party who had maintained power there for 44 years. The PC party under Redford was at worst corrupt, or at best incompetent, either way she had to be removed. But when she was removed, what replaced her was arrogant, delusional, and also held no loyalty to the ideas and concepts of the past PC parties who grew and maintained the province so well.
Make no mistake, the Alberta PC party needed to be sent a message. A loud message. A clear message. A wake up call to get your house in order and stop with all the bullshit and self entitled corruption and arrogance that had been on display over the last number of years since Ralph Klein handed over the reigns of a very healthy and out of debt province.
But in sending that message the voters of Alberta seem to have lost their collective minds because they gave a majority to the very party who holds the least amount in common with Alberta traditions and values and whose federal Party Line has always been to destroy the very industry that allowed Alberta to profit and grow and become "A HAVE PROVINCE".
Until yesterday that is.
Now I am truly fearful of the future for my family, friends, even acquaintances because the REAL HISTORY regarding the consequences for the foolish actions of last nights election have been widely ignored by very ill informed (or out right uninformed) voters.
Alberta entered the election to RIGHTFULLY punish the PC Party who had maintained power there for 44 years. The PC party under Redford was at worst corrupt, or at best incompetent, either way she had to be removed. But when she was removed, what replaced her was arrogant, delusional, and also held no loyalty to the ideas and concepts of the past PC parties who grew and maintained the province so well.
Make no mistake, the Alberta PC party needed to be sent a message. A loud message. A clear message. A wake up call to get your house in order and stop with all the bullshit and self entitled corruption and arrogance that had been on display over the last number of years since Ralph Klein handed over the reigns of a very healthy and out of debt province.
But in sending that message the voters of Alberta seem to have lost their collective minds because they gave a majority to the very party who holds the least amount in common with Alberta traditions and values and whose federal Party Line has always been to destroy the very industry that allowed Alberta to profit and grow and become "A HAVE PROVINCE".
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