#Har

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1. How true. My relatives have been farming in Saskatchewan since 1906. Last year they enjoyed their largest bumper crops EVER!

2. City slickers do need a bit of interpretation for farmer-speak. One year when I was in Alberta
   the concern was that a drought might be
   coming. Then it rained. Then the concern was expressed that too much rain would damage or ruin the crop (wheat, BTW).
   Come autumn, the crop was excellent.
   I don’t fault the wheat farmers. The season could have ended in a drought. It could have ended in rain damage, mildew, etc.
   Those are the perils of farming.

3. Many readers may find this hard to believe, but Global News writers and presenters are more obtuse than even those at CBC so no surprise here that ‘wreaking havoc’ is the order of the day.

4. “[US] Government weather forecasters predict fewer hurricanes than usual in the Atlantic this season. Federal forecasters say their lower forecast is due to cooler water temperatures.”
   But, but, weren’t we all supposed to expect more hurricanes due to climate change?
   Is the science settled yet?

5. They just can’t shake their climate doom mentality.
   Knew a farmer’s daughter years ago whose father fully understood the vagaries of farming. I asked some city person’s question regarding weather and the current year’s crop. Her answer: “My father always seeds with the expectation of a below average crop, that way he’s always happy and thankful for what he harvests.” Never say the man worried about his crops.
   These ‘news’ writers/presenters take to heart the refrain from the Talking Heads 1980’s song ‘Once in a Lifetime’
   “Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was…Same as it ever was”
   But that wouldn’t suit their religion.

6. Cooler water temperatures? Isn’t all the missing heat supposed to be hiding in the oceans?

7. Aw cummon guys get with the agenda – every urban zombie knows bad weather is the result of incorrect voting patterns and lack of pointless taxation.

8. Global, again……
   Face it, whether it is Globull, CTV, Ceeb, CNN, or whatever, the following term applies………….
   MEDIOTS.
   Remember, it is better to look good, bob and weave your pretty face, use voice inflections for extra effect, and appear to be intelligent “the report says that….”
   There is little if any intelligence on “news” programs today, its called INFOTAINMENT.
   Real news disappeared years ago. Now its just reading from the script that their betters write. Oh, and NEVER question anything, especially leftwing advocacy groups. But anything conservative must always be questioned.

9. Now that the Greenies and 1st Nations have pretty much killed Northern Gateway they are refocusing on the Kinder Morgan alternative. Vancouver’s Mayor Robertson suggested yesterday that ‘global warming’ would cost Vancouver over a billion dollars due to rising ocean waters.
   Yes, $1 billion to heighten infrastructure to prevent flooding. He argued that pipelines and thusly Fort Mac development have to be considered as viable with the down stream costs of such infrastructure costs added to the equation. People should not wonder why LNG in Prince Rupert are now in doubt.
   This is the same person who received Tides Foundation money as a activist and some say as election funding for the major’s chair. Yes, the same Tides Foundation that has been given millions by USA foundations and trusts who are actively trying to destroy the Canadian oil industry. I suspect these same USA interests will actively fund forces who will campaign against the re-election of the Harper government.
   What country would actually stand by as forces from a foreign country manipulated the political process? How low can Canada sink in this process? Talk to WW II vets and you find that they considered themselves as equals to whatever the USA had. Today we are simple followers. We followed to Bosnia, Iraq, Afganistan, Libya, Ukraine(?)… I guess times have not changed that much. We sent the cream of our country to France in WW I to prop up a aging colonial Britain. If Canada and the USA had stayed home the Brits and French would have had to come to an accommodation with Germany. In that event there probably would not have been a WW II.

10. “Now that the Greenies and 1st Nations have pretty much killed Northern Gateway…”
    The pipeline construction is proceeding on schedule.

11. So Northern Gateway is dead? Anyone know some details?
    Mayor Robertson is just doing what he was paid to do by Tides. Why is PM Harper letting these groups walk all over Canada?
    Climate has changed since the earth was formed with minor swings every few decades. These Global idiots, as well as their CTV and CBC counterparts obviously have forgotten, or choose to forget to advance the leftist agenda, the dry 1930s. Where were these morons in the 70s when the chicken little crowd were shrilly screaming about the massive ice age coming? Now the same bunch is saying we are doomed because of warming which is not occurring.
    Australia and a few other countries are beacons in fighting this massive Luddite fraud.

12. CT “If Canada and the USA had stayed home the Brits and French would have had to come to an accommodation with Germany. In that event there probably would not have been a WW II.”
    I’ve been saying something similar for 30 years. The world would be a better place if Germany had won WWI. Germany was by far the most homogenous and democratic of the great empires of the day.

13. It’s easy to second-guess the decisions of the past, but it’s also pointless. Canada certainly wasn’t “propping up” Britain in World War I; we were rather demonstrating our importance to the Empire, which was central to our identity and our status. That certainly seemed worth doing at the time, however it might look now. You can certainly question the wisdom of Britain going to war; it was widely questioned at the time. But the wisdom of Canada following Britain for good or ill was hardly so questionable.
    Britain and France would have been quite happy to come to terms with Germany, if Germany had left them any realistic basis for doing so. Britain went to war over Belgium, not to save France, and Belgian independence was clearly an important British interest. France didn’t want war at all, but was simply invaded, and had to decide whether or not to accept that. You can understand why they wouldn’t. The Germans might have decided to make the war one against Russia, and to end the war in the west as soon as they’d won it in the east, by restoring the status quo ante. They didn’t have the wisdom to do that, or even to leave themselves with the option.
    It’s easy enough to imagine an outcome to WWI that would not have led to WWII. But then it’s easy to imagine WWI ending as it did and still not leading to WWII. These are mere imaginings and they have limited value.