North of 49

Propostlogue: I sit at the screen and have a drink of beer contemplating what I shall have for dinner and I can't help but think of those humans that haven't even shelter let alone a beer fridge a car a computer etc etc So what you say and figure that you should bail now before I start telling you that we should open our borders wide and let those people come into our country or your country to get a better deal in life. I am not writing  to do that as I do not feel it is a viable economic solution. I feel we need to invest wisely in the third world but not so much by migration but through mitigation.  I am sensitive to the plight of others in places that make Canada look so good and it is that which keeps me very grateful to be born here and be white. I do truly understand how privileged I am by the virtue of those two facts and the third privilege is that I have a penis! I am missing fortune and fame but it is after all the western civilization where anything is possibl...

T he Brexit issue has brought up interesting conversation in the world of sociology they seem intrigued by this last exit being largely a movement or coherence of dissatisfied voters who expressed that dissatisfaction by voting to leave the EU. The pundits and bean counters called it to be close but for the stay side not for the leave.  No one factored in the completely uninformed voter who only really understood the importance of participating in the vote but not much about the substance of what was being voted on. Also many people who didn't care much whether they were in the EU or not simply didn't think that the central government was listening to their concerns and shouted them by saying no to the EU.  Then you have the sheeple who will just follow along and had strong anti EU leanings.  Some believe this is a referendum in America just as it was in the UK. A referendum where there is one answer to give to many  unrelated issues and the predominant issue...

I want to take myself back a number of years but with the tech that I have now. It would be amazing also fraught with horrible turns.....ending up in an "Area 51" being examined by the "Man"!  What a fantasy and yet some would say that the tech we have now is from alien beings ! What I have to say about that is this. If aliens have been on earth for who knows how long, since the space time continuum is not fully understood by we humans, it is very possible that there are aliens among us and I would assume that they would be more technologically advanced and as such can make themselves known. Or Is this like a Dr. Who episode?  Perhaps their silence is a product of some evil or divine plan involving earth. So if we are fore warned we would screw up this plan?  Truthfully we know so little about the actual structure of the universe that truly anything is still possible. But it doesn't mean the pyramids' were erected directly by alien beings w...

I'm moving through the main stream as an observer. Not an intellectual or a true pure creator I am a borrower and sometimes a reflector of the humans around me. An inquisitor but I try hard not to be judicial my query is more to be an arbiter rather than an executioner. I am not right only the power over all of us can be right and this is not human power which I see is often misguided and unjust but the laws that govern all of us I would say the laws of nature rather than use the amorphous terms that you are used to. I see the pain of so many and it is doubled through people bringing this pain on themselves through dealing pain to others as righteous as they believe themselves to be. Do not be smug and think you are immune to the laws because you have a belief in this or that. You and I are only humans prone to gross errors and imperfections our only salvation is to see that we are just that humans and in this space and time of are little consequence by ourselves. Yes some can ...

We all have a feeling that something is "wrong". It's true I see even the happiest of persons having a feeling that things in the world today are somehow off balance there is a sense that the bubble they are in is fine it is the rest of the world which has gone off it's axis. For a large portion of the population the drone of the tv set drowns out the buzzing in their head and makes everything aok and they are not at fault in anyway for not really getting it. What is it ? It is that people have started to replace interdependence with independence. From that they find most happiness when they have the upper hand and so are involved in game playing with the goal of getting  something for less.   It is coming to grips with our economic model which is flawed. It is the idea that the centralist systems which accountants love really make no physical sense but only an economic one and limited sense at that. It is understanding that the media in this world exists ...

So I have been away on an extended vacation of sorts I've certainly vacated the blog world this hiatus brought on because I have been living out of suitcase for the last 6 months. Well here I am settled more or less in Lethbridge....Alberta....it's in Canada! Why Lethbridge you ask, I have probably mentioned that my kids and grand kids are here but this is not the only reason that I have been drawn here. The area around the town had been marked by the native population at Head Smashed and to the south but not so much where the City of Lethbridge is now. but transient populations  In  town started as a mining outpost then in 1882 The first Galt company mine opened then the railway came bringing settlers to the west. The mining workforce grew to 2000 miners at it's peak with the mines around the area being the largest producers of coal in the north west territories. In 1957 the Galt No8 mine shut down and the end of an era came apon Lethbridge. Ba...

No this isn't a long teary farewell but a marker a blogger flare saying I am still here but have been too busy or just plain speechless in regards to the news of the day. My living situation is again an impediment to making comment on the world having no fixed address physiologically takes me out of sync. To end this I have decided to buy a home in a little prairie town. Does this mean an end to my ramblin days? I don't think so. If something takes me from here I'll just rent it out or sell it. Over the fifty odd years of living I have found one constant and it's change. Nothing is permanent.