Would that be a shooting range right beside the curling rink? You can't get any more Saskatchewan than that. :)

Naahh I was hoping so the first time I saw it too, its a machine shop. Will keep the libs away though, an unregistered firearm of that size......instant stroke lol

next G&M Headline?

DIRTY OIL & COAL in Saskatchewan, GUNS too!

and a nasty black gun at that, all black guns with pistol grips and muzzlebrakes are born evil, it's deep in their soul don't ya know?

Also bayonet lugs are evil because they promote drive by stabbings...

i am a retired OTR trucker in Alberta. The Shand Power Plant not only helps Saskatchewan but some of us Ab. guys also. I hauled many loads of soda ash from Wyoming to Shand. It put a bunch of bucks in my pocket. Thanks.

Luscar mines... mmmmm... energy...

This is a distraction from the real disaster!
we must all band together to save the planet!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymqeNYVBZ00

Those draglines and pumpjacks have been in that southeast area since I was a little boy and I'm retired today. My son is a born and bred BC boy. He came out and saw the old dragline pits around Beinfait and South Estevan. He couldn't believe that such environmental damage could be left behind for so many years. I told him that we've never seen a Greenie or a tree hugger in Saskatchewan because you can't protest effectively in a parka and sorels in minus 60 wind chill.

I let him stew on that for a couple of days and then told him that the real reason was that over the years these pits and hillocks had developed into waterfowl and wildlife sanctuaries.

Still, I still think there was a grain of truth in that story.

Terry: There's more than a little truth in that story. Study a little geology. Mother nature is an environment wrecker. Go back a couple of days on SDA and view the North Dakota geology. A lake the size of all the Great Lakes put together dried up due to: wait for it: a Global Warming that ended the last Ice Age (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4IRMYuE1hI). Let's hope that the last decade isn't a precursor to the next one.

And under that cold don't you all have a boat-load of Uranium too. It's like a trifecta.

Coal, Oil, Uranium.

Ash, lots of ash.

Potash, that is.

As I have asked before...if lefties/greenies are sooooooo against evil energy,why do they keep showing up here making posts?????

TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTERS,HYPOCRITS!!!!
(Same in AB, Kate.Ever seen Wababmum???)

Ah power! The double edged sword that moved the majority into population centers to receive liberal educations so they could grow up return to the rural areas and protest the technology that allowed them to experience their urban lifestyle and created not one but 2 successive generations that have no friggin clue how the world manages to produce so much power that they can, 24 hours a day, enjoy a cup of coffee with beans picked in South America for around a 1.50 at a combo fuel/convenience store.

Then apply that same unrounded education to real world problems with energy supply and come up with RePower America, just build 10,000 sq miles of solar farms in 1 spot in the desert to somehow replace foreign oil and domestic coal and natural gas.

I wonder why North America is falling behind in terms of practical science and engineering graduates as the enrollment in Hemp Studies, EPA Enforcement Official and Climate Misunderstandings is spiking...

Global warming is a good thing. Global cooling is a bad thing. Right now, Global cooling is happening. Not neat!!!

I could use a little global warming right now. This morning in Halifax, it is raining, snowing and blowing.Roads are wet, slippery or snow covered, depending on which street you are on.

Would that second pic be a native smoke shop?lol

Global warming request!!!! March be going out like a lion.

Side question. What is with the C8 Carbine in extra large size?

Hee, hee... I love it.

That's actually the "sign" for Chip 9 Machining, in Estevan.

http://www.canpages.ca/page/SK/weyburn/chip-9-machining-ltd/3109849.html

Energy independence now.

Doesn't all this make one long for the good old days when Sask. was nothing more than a "wee province" (to quote Lorne Calvert) and the only industry that flourished was the civil service? Harken back to the time when Sask. was a socialist utopia where NDP governments would gratefully accept an annual cheque from Liberals in Ottawa.

Now, Stephen Harper won't send us a cheque because he's a meanie and Brad Wall doesn't mind because we don't need it to survive.

Drag lines like the Prairie Queen are run on electricity, powerlines are built to them and since Shand is a coal-fired electricity generating station electricity is plentiful. Also they move on "feet", they do not have tracks but rather pads that "walk" the machine. Movement is very slow and methidical.

Apart from other thing,the pictures are nice.I have taken those for my wallpaper :)

I wish I was living back in S'toon. I would organize a public burning of effigies of Gore and Slizuki to commemorate the coming of spring if it ever gets here.
I just got back from a two month trip circumnavigating South America and had hoped for spring to have arrived. Yuch, do we ever need to turn our furnaces up, turn the lights on and search for more oil and coal. For those global warming jerks who have never been to a wonderful place called Saskatchewan...go there-you can almost see the wind!

Estevan.

Evil place. Roads are nasty even to people who are used to Calgary and the mountains in winter.

Almost killed my friends who were driving back from Calgary where they were stationed in the Army (before scumbag Liberals moved the base to landslide annie's riding in Redmonton.) They missed Christmas. One spent 5 months in hospital and a year in rehab.

Head-on crash. Very bad. Killed the other driver.

Not a fan of Estevan.

In fact, resources aside, there is nothing good about SK. I drove through a couple of summer ago and the only thing there aside from farms are a couple of crime infested dung heaps they call "cities." There is nothing to do in SK but run a blog and groom your dogs.

Sorry Kate. Sk isn't AB. AB has mountains. That and Calgary. The only worse place in Canada is MN. MN is SK without the jobs.

I see I need to make one of those oversize "assualt" rifle signs to hang at the end of my driveway.

IF any of Obama's brown-shirt cadres were to ever find their way here it might give them pause to reconsider.

Anyone think it might also discourage the rare pair of Jehovah Witnesses that somehow get lost this far out to knock on doors?

Yoop

I'd prefer claymore mines. Much more effective. Those Jehovah Witnesses are crafty beasts. Very hard to take down when in packs.

Apparently the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec has mega fossil fuel potential also, but ....

I'm in Ontario. Bought my AR from a dealer in Sask. Free delivery and no 8% PST for McSquinty. Life is good.

"Apparently the St Lawrence Valley in Quebec has mega fossil fuel potential also, but ...."

...since they have endless amounts of free money from Ontario and Alberta they don't need to develope it.

but... we're already drilling it!!! :D

Warwick, a positive for SK, MB and AB is the fine fishing in the northern portions of each province. The southern parts of each are good for growing stuff on flat lands and teaching pilots how to fly. Less mountains to run into, ya know.

btw, lived in all three said provinces. Like the foothills the best (after the Canadian Shield).

If I were to move anywhere else in Canada it would be Canmore AB.

I wasn't thinking fishing as I'm not into fishing. I know my uncles from AB used to go to lakes in east AB somewhere. Great fishing at the time. Not sure about now.

If I put that sign over my driveway here in Onscario the cops would be here the next day. No guff. Probably tell me to take it down.

Instead I'm going to put a big frickin' skull with flames coming out on the side of my barn. No cop visit for the flaming skull.

Logical, right? Welcome to McGuinty's Ontario.

Let's see . . .

You could build a Nuke Plant that uses your uranium to power electrical shovels to scrape coal, run the potash mines and power pump jacks. Then use the 'waste' steam to mine your oil sand deposits.

Beauty . . . .

Fred, you're missing one thing there. Needs to be a seal hunt someplace.

Hilarious pairing and commentary. Exactly what I needed to see this morning. Thanks Kate!

That's actually the "sign" for Chip 9 Machining, in Estevan.

Just too logical, a machine shop machining a machine gun.

Phantom,

Could we substitute Prairie Dogs for little fluffy seals ??

I think Kate would approve.

"Could we substitute Prairie Dogs for little fluffy seals ??" ... na, need too many to make a coat.

Could we just make hats & mitts instead of coats ?

Might work . . . . .

Can you skeet shoot prarie dogs?

"PULL!" lol.

Baby ones, Fred. They need to be fuzzy, and have really big cute eyes. Have to hunt 'em with clubs on the snow too. Lefties don't respond well to subtlety.

From what I know about prairie dogs, that could be problematic.

Warwick, skeet shooting could work. Slugs only.

Glory Hallalueah Mother!
Get gatherin' the youngin's, round up the livestock and load up the wagon...
We's found the promised land, and we needs to gets goin' there now!

SDA 'conservatism' consists entirely of reacting to the perceived policies of 'liberals' and irrationally hating said 'liberals'.

and that's it!

Nah bleet... that's just our down-time entertainment. We leave the serious irrational hating to you folks - it's pretty much the only thing y'all can do

But according to Sarah Mills Saskatchewan isn't popular with the 18 to 22yr crowd. Oh no, what will we do?

I assure you bleet, its quite rational. There's just not much about you to like, frankly.

Its like Tanker says, we leave the irrationality to you people.

Yes Bleet, for now we are resigned to react to the "perceived policies of 'liberals' because the Liberals don't have any REAL policies as of yet.

Kate, Is the pump jack photo of McMillan #1 ?

Just wondering.

Saskatchewan is the place to be!

Sadly I am too old to make the move, so I am doing next best.
I will be buying and planting saskatoon berry bushes this month, right here in southern Ontario.
And with any luck will be enjoying saskatoons on the table, in three years or so.

Thanks for the chuckle.

Phantom said, "Fred, you're missing one thing there. Needs to be a seal hunt someplace."

Shh! The Sask seal hunt is a closely guarded secret. Where do you think Super Dave gets his "Genuine Saskatchewan Seal Skin Bindings"

Hey Warwick, I was out of the loop over the weekend, I must have missed the news about Canada annexing Minnesota. For the record, I am transplanted to Alberta, and Calgary is one of the the last places I would brag up if I was trying to promote the province. There are way too many better things than Calgary in this province.

You make me sigh in dispair. Oklahoma has similar resources as Sask. However, we still have the little old ladies in tennis shoes controlling some of our energy policies. PSOs Northeast station is/was the highest pressure supercritical generating station in the world. It has several units on the same site, gas and coal fired (and I think a small hydro). The coal units are built next to huge coal fields. However, they have to bring their coal in from Wyoming (due to the enviro nut little old ladies) while the coal next door goes to TVA (the government generators) because it is not clean enough for Oklahoma.

"I must have missed the news about Canada annexing Minnesota"

MN was supposed to denote Manitoba, not Minnesota.

"There are way too many better things than Calgary in this province."

Yup. I like the mountains so the parks and Canmore are my favourite places. Calgary is where you go on occasion.

My family is from Medicine Hat. I wouldn't recommend that place even though it's bigger than it was. Redmonton is a smaller version of Toronto. Nothing to see there but a giant mall (which, to a man, is like hell on earth - hockey rink and submarines notwithstanding.)

Gillette Wyoming. Energy Capital of North America.
coal , gas , oil and not afraid to show it.

beautiful open pit mines, generating stations.

I luv the smell of energy in the morning .... it smells of economy.

I was going to remark during the Earth Hour posts that you could land a squadron of jets at night in the Estevan/Weyburn corridor. Driving home Saturday night, you could see Boundary and Shand from up to 40 KM away, and the Encana oilfield and CO2 plant were lit up like Christmas. It was a joyeous sight to see indeed.

BTW: That's Chip 9 Machining in Weyburn. The firearm turned a few heads, but people here just said it's their business, they can do what they want. Words to live by.

BTW2: Warwick; we don't like you either. You're funny looking and probably smell. Use Montana and North Dakota next time you wish to travel east.

A. Cooper

"we don't like you either. You're funny looking and probably smell. Use Montana and North Dakota next time you wish to travel east."

heh. maybe I will!

Hey, if I have to take the flack of you lot for being from Ontario...

LOL

you're always welcome here Warwick. We're used to correcting misperceptions. ;-)

I90 and around the lakes to the south beats the hell over that goat path above the lakes.

Man, Grandpaw just made a BBQ Size .45 Colt Pistol, John Wayne style, I kid you not, this thing has a 2-axle trailor under it. Let me see if I can get a digital pic of it and send it to Kate.

I90 and around the lakes to the south beats the hell over that goat path above the lakes.

Posted by: cal2 at March 31, 2009 2:34 PM

Truer words were never spoken.

Funny thing...t'other day somebody asked me to describe Sask.....
Dave Broadfoot: the only place on earth you can drive three days and the scenery never changes....
For me the images that come to mind are #1 through Erfold and a brisk midwinter early morning with 1 1/2" hoarefrost on the fences........

Hahaha - I love the gun! Excellent posting, Kate!

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ERNFOLD..........

Tanker, Phantom

Nope - I've never seen anything on this site that isn't a reaction to so-called liberal policies.

And then there's the bitching about liberals, as we've seen on this very thread, which frequently rises into threats against them, dreams of violence against them, as seen in Kate's comment and others.

Amazing. An entire political movement based on spite and irrational hatred, never presenting a policy of its own - just getting off on criticizing the party that does have a policy.

Kate: "Saskatchewan - what a country!"
Absolutely bang on Kate!
We are the best place on the planet.
Dana

bleet

"just getting off on criticizing the party that does have a policy."

well don't keep it a seceret then BOY, fill us'n rednecks in, as we've bin weightin fer years to heer it!!!!

Hopefully all these new found riches don't put a dent in my supply of "genuine Saskatchewan sealskin boots". Been gettin' 'em since I was a kid way back in the '60s. Warm boots them.
All kidding aside and slightly OT, I did wear "genuine sealskin" boots as a kid, they were warm and dry, had to be affordable otherwise I wouldn't have had them. Just a thought.

I delivered to a coal mine just west of Edmonton on monday. It was quite the operation out there. The mine had it's own underpass for the highway, so the bucket trucks could go under the highway.

Couldn't help but notice the nice thick yellow haze coming out of the stacks. Looked nasty.

"...pick off Liberals???" ... Your picture of the machine gun was about as brilliant as your picture of the fool in the dingy with the machine gun. Kate, you need to get over yourself, our troops are seeing this shite.

Children, too.

"...pick off Liberals???" ... Your picture of the machine gun was about as brilliant as your picture of the fool in the dingy with the machine gun. Kate, you need to get over yourself, our troops are seeing this shite."

Kindly spare us the sanctimonious lecture.

Kate did not advocate shooting Liberals and anyone who took this seriously has regressed far beyond a state of simple stupidity. As for our troops .... well ... I'm pretty sure that they have a sense of humour and I'm downright positive that they realize that no one has declared open season on Liberals.

It is quite evident that someone needs to "get over him/herself" .... and it's not Kate.