CBC: Listen as one unidentified caller gives us a blast about wind, winter and having to endure it year after year. We picked this message up on our voicemail system.
CBC: Listen as one unidentified caller gives us a blast about wind, winter and having to endure it year after year. We picked this message up on our voicemail system.
I wish he’d left his name, sounds like a relative of mine.
He must have been from Manitoba. NDP management will do that to a person.
it wont play for me. is there something on there about global warming being a lie if so i understand why it wont play.
The wind blows all the time here in the Calgary area too. You get used to it.
Winter is our heritage, as Canadians.
Just try to imagine what it was like to live out here on the prairies back in the day before telephones and automobiles and radio, when people lived in sod huts and the nearest neighbour was 4 miles away.
The wind howled and you read the book and you prayed to make it until spring.
I guess the CBC, Al Gore and David Suzuki built up some people’s expectations that the polar ice caps would melt and a tropical rain forest would spring forth replacing the shafts of wheat.
Suzuki and Gore both have “homes” near shore or on islands, close to water level. If they believed what they spewed on AGW and rising sea levels, they’d live in Denver…..5000 feet above sea level. Even Lizzy May lives on Saltspring Island, la deee dah and I don’t see her moving away any time soon because of ring sea levels due to AGW. She certainly doesn’t swim to the airport, either. Nope, burns diesel on the ferry out of there then gas in a taxi to the airport and flies to her office on Parliament Hill.
Hypocrits all.
Sounds like the Saskatchewan type…okay…
He could be one of those climate refugees the alarmists keep warning us about, and move to Texas or Florida. (Or were those refugees all going to be living in Antarctica?) Oh wait, it froze in those two states, also.
I get the part about being taxed to death just to live under 3 feet of snow 5 months of the year – should be a tax incentive to live (struggle) in these adverse conditions – the pioneers did it because the payoff was free land or just freedom from Euo-despotism and mabe a few bucks to spend on themselves – but what do we get for our adverse climate burden? Yeah fuel taxes to keep ourselves warm (alive) in winter – Imagine a Canadian wanting to tax warmth – it’s F-in; sick (rant mode off)
As for the weather – cupcake better suck it up because we are on the front end of a 30yr.-50yr. cold spell – the only good thing about it is we can rest assured some global warming fanatics will certainly die of exposure.
So we may have to put up with the weather but we sure as hell don’t have to put up with these parasites and sickos who want to tax life-giving warmth. That includes you too Preston Manning you fuel taxing sicko.
The caller sounds like he had trouble getting the quonset door open that morning.
Sounds like a CBC cheap shot against Brad Wall to me. The weather rant was secondary. Probably why CBC aired it.
Living near a wind farm I feel his pain. We have a few days of nice weather and then SaskPower starts up their giant fans. Wind for days on end.
Walter, I thought those fans sucked, now you tell me they actually blow?
I think they aired it because it’s laugh-out-loud funny. I have a picture in my mind of this guy hanging in his closet. This guy will never stand accused of being a pollyanna.
I think Paul has something here. The MSM have promised the folks warmer weather and surprise surprise the weather stays typical for our position on the map. Shorts and flip-flops don’t cut it here after September 1st.
Weather is part of the heritage of living in Canada and particularly on the prairies. To sucessfully get through multiple prairie winters seems to many of us a badge of honour and toughness. At the beginning of each winter I am reminded of a pin that I picked up many years ago, over layed on a picture of old man winter blowing was the phrase ’40 Below keeps the riff raft out’.
This is old, but always funny…North Dakota weather alert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8hGIF9FljM
Language warning. ☺
Winnipeg residents spent $4 million last season simply running water to keep their taps from freezing.
That’s a real number from a real finance committee report that summarized a real problem that hit Canada’s most weather-punished city.
After surviving a record-setting cold snap that hit the city in the late stages of last winter, as many as 10,000 Winnipeg residents were told the take action to stop their pipes from freezing.
The Winnipeg Free Press reports that the city’s water department waived $4 million in water bills accumulated by residents who ran their taps – a preventative measure urged at the time by the city itself.
According to a new finance report, the city also spent $4.2 million on other expenses stemming from the frigid winter, including staff overtime, water treatment and repairs.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/winnipeg-spent-4-million-on-running-water-to-keep-165231000.html
The role of giant fans is open to debate. The underlying problem is Saskatchewan’s unfortunate geographic situation. Manitoba sucks and Alberta blows.
It’s refreshing to hear someone who speaks from his bowels, sans political correctness. Having been raised in Manitoba,I can appreciate exactly where he is coming from.
Wtf is Saskabush building windmills for? There is enough tar,oil,and natural gas in that Province to supply them for the next 500 years.
Is Brad Wall secretly a bit of a greenie, or just intimidated by the green lobby, as is our Federal government?
Guest Opinion: Dr. Tim Ball
A major reason why Al Gore’s deceptive use of the melting Arctic ice was so effective is because most people have little idea what the real world is like. They have no image of the Arctic Oceans, shape or size, partly because they effectively live in a two-dimensional world. That is not a problem for them or society until someone exploits it. Gore was part of a global political agenda that exploited it. It was an agenda that expanded H L Mencken’s comment about politics to a global scale.
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Now, it was less likely people would know it was imaginary.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/17/climate-perception-projection-and-propaganda/
This whinging, whining weenie said the weather would ‘suck the will to live out of you’, but he’s still alive and whining. I feel cheated.
And sometimes you died. Because all you got as an immigrant, back then, was a plot of land and the possibility of dieing on it.