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Nefarious Banana

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  1. Not directly on topic . . . The flagship American national park is Yellowstone, the flagship Canadian national park is probably Banff/Jasper.  Two big parks with roughly the same terrain.  The Americans have a policy of 'let it burn' in their beautiful Yellowstone.  The big fires of the early '90's were left to burn, with the only fire-fight to keep Yellowstone Lodge from burning.  The forest fire is the ultimate end of the forest cycle.  Yellowstone flourished with new growth within a year ... fireweed being the colonizer, pine and spruce following quickly. Beutiful results, vibrant and good for the game animals.

    Canada on the other hand has a policy of lighting their hair on fire if a forest fire starts in their parks.  As a result, the build-up of ground fuel and  dying standing timber is a bomb waiting to happen.  Fire storm, burnt damaged earth, devastation that takes years to 'green-up' again.

     

     

     

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  2. 20 hours ago, blackbird said:

    The fact is the Bible has the answers about life, politics, and the evil in the world.  There is a struggle going on in the world between good and evil.  But the Devil wants to silence people from talking about it from a Biblical point of view.

    Your thread:  China/Canada $$, etc.  And yet again, you've got up on your pulpit to preach, condemn, and look down your nose at anyone that has different beliefs than your own.  Opening your reply(s) with "You should" sets the tone of your rabid zealotry.  Your thread, and life's full of choices, I'll choose not to read your stuff in the future.  

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  3. 21 minutes ago, blackbird said:

    I am not called to go to a far off country to be a missionary.  There is work to do right here.  Life is a struggle in lots of ways but I trust in Jesus Christ to get me through it.

    Early missionaries to North America . . . 'hell and damnation' if the natives kept with their own religion/belief system of 'mother earth & father sky' that will provide for you or kill you.  How arrogant of the missionaries and the hierocracy that sent them there to 'convert' ....  Burn in hell if you didn't understand that three weirdos on a humpbacked animal strange to NA,  followed a star.  Parting of the water, baby in a floating coffin, etc., etc., etc.  

    How arrogant of you to pooh-pooh others belief systems that may/may not work for them  ... just as your belief system may/may not work for you.  Why don't you keep your zealotry out of your posts?

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  4. 17 hours ago, eyeball said:

    I hear you...I delivered hundreds of loads of firewood over the years. I had an old 1 Ton flat-deck I built a box on and turned into a dump truck. $150 a load was what I was charging...15 years or so ago I guess when I stopped.

    Its become a bit of a luxury alright but we get more than a few power outages around here so its also bit of a necessity. It's harder to get since logging wound down and we deactivated all the logging roads. That said I still see lots of wood washing up on the beaches around here. I salvaged hundreds of logs off beaches - halcyon days, especially that year a freighter lost some 20000 logs hereabouts, much of which was export grade old growth Douglas Fir.  Some of those logs were worth a couple thousand bucks or more.  My buddy and I milled up the biggest stuff for our homes and the edge grained stuff went for boat lumber.  I probably sold a couple hundred hydro pole sized logs for pilings as well.

    Why not just grow their own?  Its about as hard as growing a tomato FFS.

    Nothing quite as comforting and warm as wood heat, a re-newable resource. Firewood production will keep you fit and crabby ... (smiling)  That saltwater wood will eat your stove eventually. Husqvarna 2100 (Walker-ized) for the poaching of the odd snag. 

  5. 8 minutes ago, Queenmandy85 said:

    For the Bloc, they want to represent Quebecers and Quebecers don’t appear to like the CPC. 
    The NDP want programs like pharmacare and dental care. If the government falls before they get Royal Accent, those programs will die. 

    Quebec is not a part of Canada ... by their own admission.

    The NDP aren't doing anything that any other party couldn't do.

    Your arguements are meaningless.

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  6. 24 minutes ago, CdnFox said:

     

     . . .you'd have to be 7 different kinds of stupid to think that.  Unless you mean that technically anything is possible in the universe, like if PP and the rest of the conservatives were hit by a meteor and killed and all the ndp decided to quit politics and start a commune or something.  Then it's possible ;) 

     

    Where's our resident 'little guy' herbie?  Hiding behind the couch, under the bed?  His appalling Trudeau govt. is in free-fall.  

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