Iggy and the Idiots.

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  1. end of the road

    end of the road Heavy Load Member

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    Name any country with more coastline than Canada.
     
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  3. Johnny R

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    Last week I was driving and it got foggy. I said to my partner. I feel just like a Conservative - driving around in a fog with limited vision. Ha ha.
     
  4. Prairie Boy

    Prairie Boy Road Train Member

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    Thank god Iggy wasn't guiding you. :biggrin_2559:
     
  5. Licensed to kill

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    While coast guard vessels are important to Canada, Warships as a means of defence make little sense. Warships (including subs) are offensive, not defensive, by nature. Heavy surface ships and subs are a poor choice to defend a coastline whereas fighter planes are very effective and versatile.
     
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  6. Denadii Cho

    Denadii Cho Light Load Member

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    You sound just like that ####### Iggy. Open your mouth and crap comes out. I don't think I want to discuss even the weather with you anymore.

    My daddy always said "You can NOT win an argument with an ignorant man" I'm done
     
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  7. Denadii Cho

    Denadii Cho Light Load Member

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    So true. Back in the day people worked harder, and had fewer choices, but I think by and large our parents' generation was more responsible - and a lot happier - than the modern ones. There is a lot to be said for simplification.



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    IS IT THE OLDER GENERATION WHO CREATED OUR PROBLEM???? DON'T THINK SO...

    In the line at the store, the cashier told the older woman that she
    should bring her own grocery bag because plastic bags weren’t good for
    the environment. The woman apologized to him and explained, “We
    didn’t have the green thing back in my day.”

    The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. The former generation
    did not care enough to save our environment."

    He was right, that generation didn’t have the green thing in its day.

    Back then, they returned their milk bottles, soda bottles and beer
    bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be
    washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles
    over and over. So they really were recycled.

    But they didn’t have the green thing back in that customer's day.

    In her day, they walked up stairs, because they didn’t have an
    escalator in every store and office building. They walked to the
    grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every
    time they had to go two blocks.

    But she was right. They didn’t have the green thing in her day.

    Back then, they washed the baby’s diapers because they didn’t have the
    throw-away kind. They dried clothes on a line, not in an energy
    gobbling machine burning up 220 volts – wind
    and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me-down
    clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing..

    But that old lady is right, they didn’t have the green thing back in her
    day.

    Back then, they had one TV, or radio, in the house – not a TV in every
    room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief, not a
    screen the size of the state of Montana. In the kitchen, they blended
    and stirred by hand because they didn’t have electric machines to do
    everything for you.
    When they packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, they used a
    wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble
    wrap.

    Back then, they didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut
    the lawn. They used a push mower that ran on human power. They
    exercised by working so they didn’t need to go to a health club to run
    on treadmills that operate on electricity.

    But she’s right, they didn’t have the green thing back then.

    They drank from a fountain when they were thirsty instead of using a
    cup or a plastic bottle every time they had a drink of water. They
    refilled their writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and
    they replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the
    whole razor just because the blade got dull.

    But they didn’t have the green thing back then.

    Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their
    bikes to school or rode the school bus instead of turning their moms
    into a 24-hour taxi service. They had one electrical outlet in a room,
    not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And they
    didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from
    satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza

    But they didn’t have the green thing back then.
    Imagine that ... and we didn't need a name for it!


    And it was practiced by all...Imagine That!





     
  8. Prairie Boy

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  9. Denadii Cho

    Denadii Cho Light Load Member

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    Thank yuh thank yuh very much.....
     
  10. Prairie Boy

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    Hey DC.

    Ed Wesselius used to drive for me.


    Guelph trucker seeks to make immigration an election issue






    GUELPH — All four local mainstream Party candidates are distancing themselves from a local man spending his own money in an attempt to make immigration an election issue.

    Truck driver Ed Wesselius, a 63-year-old Guelph resident, is the man behind Canada4Canadians, a website dedicated to immigration reform.

    Wesselius said the treatment of new Canadians is “political correctness run amok” and wants the next federal government to change that.

    “When you come to Canada, like I did, you become a Canadian,” said Wesselius, who, in 1959, arrived in Canada from outside Amsterdam, at age 11. “But this new crop of immigrants seems to think we should conform to their wishes. If you don’t like it here, get back on the boat.”

    Wesselius has bought local newspaper advertisements directing people to his website. Once there, people are encouraged to “become a part of our growing membership.”

    Wesselius is determined to block progress on a private member’s, Bill C-428. The bill proposed to amend the Old Age Security Act to reduce the residency requirement for entitlement to a monthly pension from 10 years to three years.

    Private member’s bills seldom become law, and this bill, like all others in the works when Parliament was dissolved last month, died on the order paper and would have to be reintroduced once the new Parliament is sworn in.

    “This bill has only one purpose, and that is to ‘feather-bed’ a select group of people for votes,” the website reads. “There are too many people abusing the generosity of the Canadian people … We need to stop this now.”

    Wesselius said all the words on his website are his own. And he wants at least one local mainstream candidate to read them.

    “To be perfectly honest, I support one of the local candidates. He and I have talked about it. But I don’t think it’s appropriate to bring up his name. But I’m sure you can guess who it is,” Wesselius said. “Whoever forms government, whether it’s Conservative or Liberal, whichever it is, needs to look at this issue.”

    None of the mainstream candidates running in Guelph say they have met with Wesselius.
    Liberal MP Frank Valeriote said he’s never met or spoken to Wesselius and had never seen the man’s website until directed to do so by the Guelph Mercury.

    “To my knowledge, I have never spoken or met with Mr. Wesselius,” NDP candidate Bobbi Stewart said.

    “I cannot remember ever meeting with this man,” Conservative candidate Marty Burke wrote, in an email. “As for immigration, this is something I am closely acquainted with, since I myself am an immigrant.”

    Burke’s parents moved their family to Canada from England when he was six years old.
    “Our Conservative government has increased immigration to record levels, and we are happy to see new Canadians bringing many cultures and skills to our communities,” Burke said.

    Last week, Burke hosted a discussion group with several friends from various cultural communities and Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney.

    Laura Northey, who is part of Green party candidate John Lawson’s campaign team, said in an email, “John is not familiar with the individual in question.”

    Lawson’s campaign stated that Ottawa needs to act on various immigration issues faced by new Canadians, such as easing their integration into Canadian society.

    “Immigrants who have professional qualifications or accreditations that are in high demand deserve to be able to take jobs in their field in Canada,” Northey wrote on Lawson’s behalf. “We’d like to make it easier for them to do so.”
    glayson@guelphmercury.com
     
  11. Denadii Cho

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    Well This is interesting I think though he should go at it from another direction. He should write and push that MP to get the reforms done. In addition to gathering support for it. Just my opinion of course.
    When my family came to Canada we were part of building Canada so it could be called Canada. I hate the idea of foreigners coming here and making it a copy of the country they left. I think that's the highest insult they could give Canada
     
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