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Alberta :: For all the "Twits" out there

Author: Mudge
Subject: For all the "Twits" out there
Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 3:41 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

This is kewl (at least I think so)

http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/06/30/web-site-story/

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Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: AltaInd
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:44 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

RedDog wrote:

Loughheed values? Good Christ. He sold Alberta out to Trudeau. He was on his knees with mouth gapping open as he signed the Franco-Phony fake constitution and his interview two nights ago on television (which I watched from Montreal ironically) verified everything.

Loughheed can rot in hell.

Yes, Lougheed has entered Alberta mythology as St. George fighting to slay the NEP dragon. You are one of the few who remember that after negotiations with True-Dough, Lougheed agreed to NEP. Albertans stood up to be counted and said NO! Traitor Lougheed backpedaled, turned a 180 and got in front of the parade to become an "Alberta patriot". Let us never forget that he should have been shot at dawn.

Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: Whispering Dick
Subject: Stelmach's challenge
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:43 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

REVOLUTION --- Yes --- Maybe EXXON would finance it, in return for our resources. Has anyone asked ????

I must be getting senile --- Dick.
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Canada & International :: "Suppressed" Climate Change Report Author Speaks O

Author: B.Max
Subject: "Suppressed" Climate Change Report Author Speaks O
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 5:24 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

Corruption in governments is so bad that we should just do away with government. All governments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLYTYnO9KZ4

Read

Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: Mudge
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:22 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

RedDog wrote:

I said Lougheed held some values - I did not say I shared them. Ralphie had none except for his lust for power and his love of the media.

Stelmach has, in my view, nothing to raise him above the level of the common herd - much like all of us - where have all the "Leaders" gone ???

We really need a good revolution

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Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: RedDog
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 4:16 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

Loughheed values? Good Christ. He sold Alberta out to Trudeau. He was on his knees with mouth gapping open as he signed the Franco-Phony fake constitution and his interview two nights ago on television (which I watched from Montreal ironically) verified everything.

Loughheed can rot in hell.
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Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: Mudge
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:20 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

tanpro wrote:

How any PC member who shares the values of Lougheed or Klein can sit silent and support the current Stelmach regime is beyond me.\

Hmmm - Lougheed did hold some values - Klein, not so much !

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Media & Blog Watch :: RE: EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming

Author: tanpro
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:15 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 2

Obama's Hidden Agenda is seeing the light, and it isn't pretty.
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Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: tanpro
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 7:14 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

How any PC member who shares the values of Lougheed or Klein can sit silent and support the current Stelmach regime is beyond me.

The odd time that inaction isn't the rule results in bad policy. The HTF (a personal favorite) has taken repeated hits on his watch. The fact that Alberta, after all the hard work and sacrifice of the '90s, is back running a deficit is criminal.

And then there is the royalty program. It is Stelmachs NEP, and the Alberta people should be informed as much.
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Alberta :: RE: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: Whispering Dick
Subject: Stelmach's challenge
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 7:25 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

Our Premier has only 2 options, in my view. Resign, or go down fighting.
Anything in between those two stances will only serve to prolong an already untenable and embarassing state of affairs. I am a Scot, and I am a Conservative. I make no apologies for iether. However, I can not support the present regime.

Remember; it is not just about Stelmach, and it is not just about royalties.
It is about GREED !!! None of us are imune to this awfull disease, it is only a matter of degree. We all choose our path as the percieved lessor of many evils and some of us (including our premier and his advisors) go too far!

Can Alberta Conservatism be rescued ? I don't know. I hope so. We are on a slippery slope and are desperately in need of an anchor.

Awaiting the day --- Dick.
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Media & Blog Watch :: RE: EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming

Author: Whispering Dick
Subject: EPA
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 6:50 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 2

Why am I not surprised ?? Everyone has an agenda nowadays! GOD has an agenda too, and that is to sort out all these agendas and the people who author them. Won't it be nice when, eventually, we can believe everybody ???

Awaiting the day --- Dick.
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Media & Blog Watch :: EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming

Author: Wildrose-Wally
Subject: EPA May Have Suppressed Report Skeptical Of Global Warming
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:54 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 2

Quote:

Originally posted by Declan McCullagh on CBS News
Less than two weeks before the agency formally submitted its pro-regulation recommendation to the White House, an EPA center director quashed a 98-page report that warned against making hasty "decisions based on a scientific hypothesis that does not appear to explain most of the available data."...

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/06/26/politics/politicalhotsheet/entry5117890.shtml

Alberta :: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Author: First Lady
Subject: Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:40 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 7

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Stelmach's challenge: Find a friend in Calgary

Since landslide election win, premier faces difficulty selling new oil and gas royalty program

DAWN WALTON AND KATHERINE O'NEILL

CALGARY and EDMONTON � From Tuesday's Globe and Mail Last updated on Tuesday, Jun. 30, 2009 11:18AM EDT

It's tough for Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach to find a friendly face in Calgary.

The powerful oil-and-gas crowd is still grousing about the Tory government's not-so-new royalty regime. The mayor has been on Mr. Stelmach's back about more funding for everything from infrastructure to police. The Premier was even booed this month at what should have been a chummy advertising awards dinner in the city.

The former Edmonton-area farmer has had a rough reign since winning a landslide victory in the March, 2008, provincial election.

"It doesn't help as a province for us to have what I would call the Edmonton gong show right now," said Calgary financier Brett Wilson.

The co-founder of FirstEnergy Capital Corp., sports-franchise owner and philanthropist thinks Mr. Stelmach is a "great guy." But Mr. Wilson is worried that the Premier has "surrounded himself with incompetents and it's bringing his perceived competence down."

Mr. Stelmach's ambitious review of how the province collects revenue from oil-and-gas producers led to a near-revolt among long-time Progressive Conservative supporters. At the same time, the world economy tanked and commodity prices plunged, sending investors fleeing.

The debt-free province is poised to post a $4.7-billion deficit, drawing accusations that the Tories have turned liberal. In a survey published yesterday in the Calgary Herald, 43 per cent of respondents said their opinion of Mr. Stelmach has worsened in the past year. However, the Premier is still more popular than the leaders of Alberta's opposition parties, the poll found.

More gloomy news is expected today with an update on the status of Alberta's Heritage Fund and provincial finances by Treasury Board President Lloyd Snelgrove, who is preparing for an even bigger deficit due to low gas prices.

The first real test of Mr. Stelmach's popularity will come this fall during a Calgary by-election. He must also face a mandatory leadership review.

While there is no organized movement to dump Mr. Stelmach, some members of the party may try to "send him a message" during the November review, said Chaldeans Mensah a political scientist at Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton.

Prof. Mensah said some of Mr. Stelmach's biggest challenges are members who are unhappy with the new royalty system and Alberta's unexpected slide into deficit.

People have already left the party in frustration.

Blaine Maller, president of Calgary's White North Energy Corp., was a lifelong Conservative until the new royalty framework was implemented on Jan. 1. "By the time we are rid of the Stelmach Tories in Alberta, we will need a defibrillator and a shot of pure adrenalin to get a heartbeat back and the provincial body to jump," he said.

Continued: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/stelmachs-challenge-find-a-friend-in-calgary/article1202012/
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Alberta :: Stelmach losing favour, poll says

Author: Danny H.
Subject: Stelmach losing favour, poll says
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:33 am (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 0

Quote:

Stelmach losing favour, poll says

CALGARY - Four in 10 people have soured on Premier Ed Stelmach over the past year, a sentiment that's grown strongest among older Albertans, a new poll shows.

Only five per cent of people surveyed have a more favour-able view of Stelmach, and 40 per cent said their opinion of the premier hasn't changed since last year, when the Conservative party won a massive majority.

The Leger Marketing poll, which surveyed 900 Albertans from June 18 to 21 and was provided exclusively to the Herald, uncovered a nearly identical divide when asking respondents whether they approve or disapprove of Stelmach's performance. Overall, 41 per cent gave him the thumbs up, while 40 per cent aren't fans of his track record. The rest didn't offer an opinion.

At 34 per cent, his approval rating is worst in Calgary.

"He should be a little bit concerned because there are many Albertans who are not very impressed," said Leger pollster Marc Tremblay.

Stelmach, however, can take solace in the fact his approval rating is far better than that of his opponents. Both Liberal Leader David Swann and NDP Leader Brian Mason garnered only 22 per cent support for their performance, while 29 per cent disapprove of Swann and 34 per cent don't like the job Mason is doing. (A large chunk had no opinion of either opposition leader.)

"This is still a very strong Conservative province," Tremblay said. "Albertans are fairly tolerant with their government and they don't see a credible alternative with the Liberals or the NDP at this point."

Despite the Tories' overwhelming grip on power, holding 72 of the province's 83 seats in the legislature, several political analysts see a threat simmering in the Wildrose Alliance, as the fledgling right-wing party continues to draw donations from the oilpatch and is in the midst of a leadership race.

The party, which elected no MLAs in the March 2008 election, has been the staunchest political opponent of the Conservatives' royalty hikes, which have been steadily downgraded through government revisions.

Mount Royal College political scientist Duane Bratt suggests repercussions of that royalty review, coupled with the ensuing recession and projected multibillion-dollar deficits, are splintering Stelmach's support not only in Calgary, but also in the traditional Conservative bedrock of rural Alberta.

Bratt said the Wildrose Alliance could turn this discontent into political opportunity.

"A lot of those (rural) places, the Wainwrights and the Bonnyvilles, those are the oil-service towns and royalties have had an impact there," Bratt said, noting rural Alberta has in the past embraced new right-of-centre political movements.

Stelmach's popularity has taken a hit in Alberta's smaller communities, according to the Leger poll.

Forty per cent of respondents in regions outside of the province's two largest cities signalled approval for Stelmach, compared to 52 per cent in February 2008.The premier's approval rating is relatively unchanged in Edmonton (48 per cent in June 2009; 45 per cent in February 2008) and Calgary(34 per cent in June 2009; 35 per cent in February 2008).

The over-55 crowd was the most likely of any age group to tell Leger it disliked Stelmach's performance. Slightly more than half registered their displeasure, compared with 41 who voiced their support.

Grant MacEwan College political scientist Chaldeans Mensah suggests a lot of Albertans are still taking a wait-and-see approach with Stelmach, as he grapples with a bruising recession. If the economic slump proves worse than expected -- and government deficits larger than predicted--Mensah expects discontent with the premier's leadership will grow.

Rookie Liberal Leader Swann, meanwhile, isn't on many Albertans' radar, University of Lethbridge political scientist Harold Jansen notes.

Aside from a name-recognition challenge, Jansen suspects the economic downturn is testing the political beliefs of Swann, who's known chiefly for his defence of public health care and the environment.

"He's caught in a really hard position," Jansen said. "The natural point of opposition, which was the one Laurence Decore staked out in the late '80s and early '90s, which is out-flank the Conservatives on the right, doesn't come naturally to David Swann. That's not where he leans."

For the NDP, Jansen sees little prospects for the party outside of Edmonton.

With only two MLAs--leader Mason and newcomer Rachel Notley --Mensah said they've essentially established a joint leadership, possibly grooming Notley to eventually take over the reins.

The Leger poll has a sampling margin of error of plus or minus 3.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.

Source: Calgary Herald, Edmonton Journal
http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Stelmach+losing+favour+poll+says/1742828/story.html

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Canada & International :: RE: HOW TO STAND UP TO IRAN

Author: AlbertaReformer
Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:38 pm (GMT -7)
Topic Replies: 4

I had no intention of turning this into a discussion about religion but as far as I know none of us knows when the Second Coming will happen (from the King James Version of the Bible):

Matt. 24: 36
But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

Mark 13: 32
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

My understanding also is that we can't idly stand by and wait for the Second Coming:

James 1: 22-23
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: