In what can only be described as a conspiracy hatched within the darkest corridors of conservative “think tanks”, Albertans have launched a devious plan to rule the world. Clearly, having forced most Albertans to read America Alone, by Mark Steyn, the puppet masters have triggered a wave of conservative dalliances the breadth and width of the province.
The result is shocking.
… or as one commenter put it, “progressives” will only be able to pass on their world view to their cat and canary.
crossposted@Cjunk
It’s all those Newfies – they breed like mosquitoes. Hah, hah!!!! Or perhaps Muslims; there are a lot of them having a lot of children. Now I’m confused. Judging by the popular names, it must be Newfies.
Off Topic but former Premier Lougheed spoke in Saskatoon last week and I wondered. Today if there was just a hint of another NEP, Alberta without any fear would be running a reforendum on separation overnight. Lougheed was a powerful Premier at the time, how was it that he seemed to
knuckle under to Trudeau ??
Miles at February 15, 2009 10:21 PM…
Good for you Miles keep up the good work…. and try to keep your kids out of the public school system if you can.
If you can’t be prepared to do battle with the daily brainwashing.
Good Luck.
Really!
gord – I guess maybe we’re both working on the same puzzle but are starting on different ends.
My grandparents on one side had double digit siblings. My parents had three and two siblings. My generation has two kids each. As mentioned, I know many people my age with no or kids or one kid.
We’ve made the choice, consciously or unconsciously as a society to enjoy the fruits of the labours of the previous generations, while importing people to keep the growth rate of the country’s population up, which then keeps the economy growing.
So, the thing is, are we going to have a society that produces Canadians, or end up with balkanized and walled-off communities where “Canadian” is not an important label?
I had two parents , I had 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents, its evident that the population has been going down for a long long time.
Pat Paulson – presidential candidate 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Paulsen
my favourite . “Ive upped my standards , now up yours”
Um, cal2, my point was that my grandfather had nearly innumerable cousins, my father had a comparatively smaller amount of cousins, I had a smaller yet number of cousins, and my kids have only four cousins.
By a strange coincidence, I had the same number of grandparents and great-grandparents as you did 😛
sorry Erik , I should have identified the first statement as a Pat Paulson joke as well. 8>P
If you follow the money you will see investments all over Canada with oil baksheesh. Invested from BC to Labrador. From vineyards to ship building
Premiers hold hefty IOU’s to Alberta. Ones if we called in would crumble the last of there economies.
We have our own ambassador to the US. Trade treaty’s now with BC & Saskatchewan. Merged Cabinet meetings.
We own half of Bay street.
This will become apparent when our secret army of Alberta militia becomes needed.
Alberta has destiny at her back. The East is old with decay, worn out like a pair of smelly dead skin filled socks. Time for a new Empire to form. You never knew we introduced fluoridation into your water system, because it lowers IQ by 20%. Its only a matter of time now before we make our wishes known. Did you actually think the Auto crisis was real? Now the East has no industry. The evil elves from the West are gonna come a callin. You’ll see!!!
cal2 thought so . . . 🙂
In any case, it’s a different country than when I grew up – and that was less than 50 years ago. In my elementary school, you would just ask the guy sitting next to you where his grandparents farmed. There was quite a diversity of European surnames, but 90% of us were grandchildren of immigrant farmers, very few had city-based histories.
I wonder what the proportion of new immigrants upbringing is – rural vs urban. That would be another interesting statistic
“gord – I guess maybe we’re both working on the same puzzle but are starting on different ends.”
You’re probably right on that. I troubleshoot networks/computers for a living. Sometimes I approach problems sideways. It seems to work for me. Although I can never explain how or why.
“So, the thing is, are we going to have a society that produces Canadians, or end up with balkanized and walled-off communities where “Canadian” is not an important label?”
Unfortunately I think we are heading for “Canadian” is not an important label. I grew up in a neighborhood that was probably 80% immigrants. All of them had lived through the second world war. Fought, imprisoned, families wiped out etc. Everyone wanted to assimilate into Canadian culture. Too bad it’s not like that now.
Heh, it’s Albertas ‘Revenge of the Cradle’.
a big chunk of the “immigrant” births in Calgary are to those who face the east~Noel
Egad’s more Newfies!
My wife is due in 11 days. What I’m not happy about is the list of names you lot picked.
You AB’s stole the names my wife and I chose of BOTH boy and girl in your top 3 (my wife and I don’t know what we’re having so we picked first and second names for both.)