General Chat

I bow at your feet, Janey and acknowledge your mastery of the art of genealogy - I am unworthy lol.

Seriously that was a great piece of work.

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well done!


halo duly polished for you!



Have to admit, I hadn't looked at the youtube ...... but Ian & Sylvia broke up in the 1970s.


He sang Four Strong Wings at the Memorial for the 4 RCMP killed at Maplethorpe Alberta 3 or 4 years ago.



but on that radio program, they played snippets of quite a few people who have covered it!

Is that the Neil Young song?

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Tsk. Neil Young did sing it (there's a youtube of him, but I'm not familiar with his version) but Ian Tyson wrote it. It's the purest Canadiana. Neil Young, well, he went kind of Yank. Voted for Reagan. But he's seen the error of his ways, it seems. ;)

I didn't see the memorial service I guess Sylvia. Not sure how I missed it, as I certainly followed the case closely. We don't need a registry for long guns, nooo. Nobody murders anybody, let alone police (remember the two other RCMP members shot while pursuing a family murderer not long after?), with long guns.

What kind of "Combine Harvester is That Then?**M**.:o))>

It's a brand new one, **M**!

Couldn't tell one from the other myself, I fear.

But I'm old enough to remember roller skates with keys, I also fear.

JC

did you hear any news this morning on a road closure in BC?

Highway 16, closed by the RCMP for about 60 km between Terrace and Kitwanga for a "police incident"

They first closed it yesterday afternoon, but news didn't break on it until this morning.

Unsubstantiated reports are of a major gun incident .... with RCMP watching the cars while armed with rifles etc


That highway is the ONLY highway from the interior of the province to the coast in the north!

There is a piloted detour .... leaving every 4 hours via forest roads, and First Nations lands ................. takes almost 2 hours to negotiate!



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I don't hear about anything when I'm working. ;) Unless I happen to wander over to google news for something.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/
Police+incident+shuts+down+Highway+from+Terrace+Kitwanga/3758984/story.html

Police have shut down Highway 16 from Terrace to Kitwanga with an “unfolding” incident.

In several brief interviews, the RCMP has refused to release any information on the cause of the highway closure this morning. However word is spreading among businesses located on the highway that a high-speed chase involving guns is underway.

Reports of an incident involving guns have not been confirmed.

“The highway closure has been made in order for RCMP resources to safely deal with an unfolding incident. No further information is being released at this time” Const. Cindy Nunes said in a press release.


You west coasters and your drug smugglers again? ;)

The problem with the pot growing/exporting business is that as long as it's an illegal underground business, it's being operated by organized crime/gangs ... and what they're often trading it for south of the border is precisely guns.

well,


if California passes Proposition 19 tomorrow ..... they'll legalize pot


and that's one huge market taken away

:)))

BREAKING NEWS



Premier Gordon Campbell has just announced he is stepping down, ants a leadership convention as soon as possible!

He was facing a battle at the Liberal Convention in a couple of weeks time

....... and he admitted he had become the lightening rod against the HST






Oh yes


it looks as though Prop 19 has gone down the drain




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I'll bet the furriners are fascinated. Premier who? What Campbell? Are you French? ;)

If the whole lot of your corrupt right-wing "Liberals" would step down, that would be an actual improvement.

We just got the HST here in Ontario too. Doesn't seem to have caused as much ruckus. Although ... No.1 informs me it's one of the reasons the Conservatives are going to beat our Liberals this time around. I'll have to learn the name of the Conservative leader du jour, I guess. I liked the last one. John Tory, for real.

The other thing here is hydro rates. We are about to get the long-awaited time-of-day billing. I've been eager for it. Well, it turns out, our cheap rates (weekends and late nights) will be what our rates are now ... and all the other rates (peak and in between) will just be higher.

We have electric heating. Weep for us.

we've been hearing that Ontarians are finally beginning to come out agin the HST!


the battle for new Premier is going to be interesting

... most of the ones who have seemed to be candidates-in-waiting are currently Cabinet Ministers, and as smeared with the HST lies as Campbell

..... and they have to face the fact that there is an HST referendum in September next year, and they will have to continue to defend it.


The lying is the real problem here you know .............. Campbell promised no HST during an election campaign last year, and there are letters to some groups that prove he said that


Then within days of winning, he announced that HST would come in on July 1 2010


There are very few people who believe that it could have been done that fast!


His popularity rating last week reached ............... 9%

The lowest ever for ANY Canadian Premier or Prime Minister



I am sooooooooooooooo happy!!!


But then, I've never liked Campbell at any time during the 25 years or so he has been in politics, starting as Mayor of Vancouver


His best friends and supporters are and always have been ............... developers


'nuff said!

re your tariffs

sounds like another lie before the event!!!


we have a two step tariff for electricity

So many units used are at a lower rate, then you jump to a higher rate for extra units used after that base rate.

The base allowance is actually reasonably generous, for us at least ....... we have electric baseboard heating in 3 rooms, gas blown air in the other half of the house


We only jump up to the second level in the very coldest months.


Just have to remember to turn off lights in rooms that are not being used, etc etc

Oh yeah, I forgot the two-step rates. We do too (or at least we will when the change comes).

Problem in Ontario is the huge debt Ontario Hydro acquired for some reason, I don't keep track. And our dying nuclear plants.

25 years ago the fedrul guvmint paid me to convert from oil heating to electric baseboard.

Far-sighted of them, wasn't it? That $1000 gift has cost me more than any $1000 has ever cost anybody, I think.

We do spot heat, so it isn't as bad as it could be. It's never over 65ish in the room we're in (whatever that is in C). And no light that isn't being used is ever on (that means the overhead and the stove hood light when I'm cooking, and one lamp in the living room with a low-watt fluorescent bulb, or late a night a string of LED lights on the bookshelf), except a small low-watt fluorescent spot over the kitchen sink.

And I cook efficiently, on the weekend (multiple things in the oven at once, batches to freeze) and microwave much of suppers during the week. We use cold water wash and hang to dry; don't own a dryer. Short showers with an efficient showerhead. Dishes done when there's a proper load to do, every other day usually.

Other than unplugging the TV and digital box and DVD/VCR and appliances, which just isn't realistic, there ain't much more we can do to conserve. Except move away from this atrocious climate. ;)

'SUCUSE ME IF I MAY INTERUPT
YOUR RIVITING CONVERSATION


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE0pwJ5PMDg

TRY HITTING THESE NOTES

Sylvia will just stray off topic at the drop of a hat. ;)


................. Ew, sorry, Mz Diz, that's horrible. I'll bet my feral cats could hit those notes. :P

No accounting for taste, is there!

that's right

blame me!!!


oh ... and we do all the same conservation as you do, don't have a dryer, never have had


and we put the dishwasher on about every 5 days! We wash pans, baking trays, etc by hand


anyway ..... I'm off out for afternoon coffee :)))



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