Recent Comments

1. over 6 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   In Alberta we still have Farmer’s day, I think it it is June 8th this year.

2. about 7 years ago on For Better or For Worse

   Yesterday I attended a Remembrance Day service (at our school. The only vet left that actually saw battle was a Vietnam vet. This ironic, since Canada did not officially send troops, he joined the U.S. army. He comes to the school quite often, to serve as an elder.I asked him once if he had met my cousin, as he was commanding the U.S. Eighth Army in the early sixties, but it turned out he did not join until after my cousin Lloyd was forced to retire in 1964.

3. almost 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   Gee, the rock formation looks more like Jesus or the virgin Mary to me.

4. almost 8 years ago on Ripley's Believe It or Not

   It’s too small for a real helicopter. It was built for Canada’s centennial, this is the 150’th celebration this year.

5. about 8 years ago on B.C.

   Both gradualism and punctuated equilibrium are valid and and not mutually exclusive.

6. over 8 years ago on Pearls Before Swine

   I do get the joke and I do find it funny, but it does illustrate urban bias and ignorance. Very few farmers wear straw hat and bib overalls. And close to half of all farmers are women.

7. over 8 years ago on Betty

   I always liked the Daniel Boone show, and Davy Crockett ( I think both were played by Fess Parker. But my hero is (was) Tommy Douglas.

8. over 8 years ago on Betty

   This would be the Oilers, and they are in dead last again. The worst power play in the NHL.

9. about 9 years ago on For Better or For Worse

   It was probably Rob Ford that fell over.

10. about 9 years ago on Rudy Park

    At the moment, there is an election going on, way too long a campaign. The poll show a very close race (the Mike Duffy scandal is a real factor, Harper has been caught in a lie). The US may take notice if the NDP wins, they are a socialist party. Go NDP!!!