North of 49

It's titled Angry Girl. What the heck is happening here.  There seems to be that crazy  tension in the air. People are on edge a bit  more than usual. I can tell by my smile o meter. I walk around town being  nice as possible  smile at folks as I walk past them see if they smile back. Maybe I need a haircut because it seems I am getting fewer smiles than a few months ago. There must be a lot of tension in a person who has given up hope in an ideal whatever it maybe. That tension can easily lead to all out revolt. Close to home it is just the usual, people feeling as though they can only count on themselves and figure that politics is a whole lot of hogwash and figure they should be left alone. I don't know and truly when it comes to Fort McMurray Alberta I don't want to dwell on the causes of the tension. The revolt about to happen is on many fronts and it will involve many countries all disassociated but still fighting in many w...

She finds Gramps real funny The year started perfectly with a  perfectly lovely Evelyn being born on the 30th of December! January and the first tremors of the explosive revolt in Tunisia are being felt elsewhere in the Arab world. In December 2010.a spark ignited the Arab Awakening. The fuel for that spark was  Mohamed Bouazizi 's  self -immolated body. The light of that mans sacrifice, brought about by maddening frustration, illuminated for a moment the vermen who controlled the population and lived largely in the shadows away from western eyes. The human fireball outside the Tunisian government offices was seen as a call to revolt. How could it not be? The sacrifice of this man in a country so corrupt, in a society where misogyny,  religious  favoritism and radical nepotism are common place, in a geographical area that is overlooked by western media, how could you  stand by!   Not while your peers lig...