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I'm not really informed on the health care debate in the states. Like Carlos I'm old enough to remember when we had private health care but I never remember it as being a big deal. My Dad had an insurance policy through the local grain co-op(Alberta Wheat Pool) but that only covered major stuff...

I have had a Master Card for about 30 years. Always pay it off at the end of the month. I find it very convenient to not carry cash or checks. I put practically everything on the card and have built up and used the air miles at times. I realize the cards are used for marketing info...am not so...

I have a cousin who was adopted. After his parents died he went looking and found his birth mother. She was a real old skank who had 9 kids from 7 different fathers. Pretty soon he had all these low life half blood sibs camping on his door step! He actually turned out pretty good.

Bez: No I'm packing it in. If I thought it might improve in the future I might try to hang in there. When Tyson decided to leave Canada I could see the writing on the wall. Two packers now, probably one in the not too distant future. Our useless government doesn't seem to care. They ruined the...

Rockridge: Tyson does not own Lakeside. XL(Neilson bros) does own Lakeside. Tyson Foods sold Lakeside packers last spring and does not have any packing plants in Canada. After aquiring Lakeside, XL promptly closed down their cow plant in Moosejaw as they claimed farmers weren't sending enough...

Apparently there is a bit of this going on in central Alberta. They figured out someone with a truck with a hydro deck is working at night. One guy I know had 14 bales "liberated" in one night! He says he's checked out the trees around the field and has noted a few stout ones where he can throw...

I got married young, had my kids young, got divorced relatively young. Never regretted any of it. Found a companion many years later who was intelligent, independent, and a pretty good looker. She has her own business and her own home. We get along together pretty well and the things we enjoy...

In Canada whatever you win gambling is yours. No tax. If you hit the lottery its all yours.

My mother is in a nursing home. Not quite sure how it works but I think the bill is about $1200/month. Before that she lived in a "retirement home"...I think the bill was about $2400, but it was pretty upscale and had all kinds of extras. A person was required to be able to walk down to the...

About 7 years ago I got sick of dealing with "employees" and all the government crap associated with it. I have two people working for me in a small reclamation business. I told them from now on you are "contractors". I supply the equipment, you supply the labor. You get the job done right and...

One more thing spoon: I don't know if you ever heard of the "Jack in the Box" affair in Washington state about ten years ago? This fast food hamburger chain "Jack in the box" killed a bunch of people with E-coli? On investigation they found the meat came out of Canada...in boxes "Product of...

I didn't think the USA allowed beef from Brazil in unless it was cooked and canned(corned beef), because of Foot and mouth? In Canada it isn't allowed in. About ten years ago I went to a seminar on the beef business. The speaker was from Kansas and was an expert on foreign beef trade. At that...

In Alberta we are running a deficit for the first time in about twenty years. The drop in natural gas prices and oil has really taken a bite out of royalties. Oil royalties from the tar sands were never very good...in fact almost nothing! Our provincial government has a big spending problem and...

Maybe I'm a pessimist or something? All the big shots in the banking world and stock market gurus seem to think good times are right around the corner! However I keep seeing businesses in trouble, people losing their jobs or having a reduction in hours, governments going deeper into debt. I...

I'm not real sure about the cost of a submersible. I believe the last one I bought(1/2 hp/220 volt/6 Imperial gal/min.) was $550(about four yrs. ago), but that was in Canada and I suspect a submersible in the USA would be a lot less? I agree with Ken, a submersible and the generator is your best...

Not sure about using a pacer pump. They pump a lot of volume...the well would have to be really good to replace the volume without dropping in height down the well. Not a geat fan of jet pumps. From the sounds of the set up(two poly pipes down the hole) it is for a deep well jet pump. You would...

Looking back on some of my old accounting books I am amazed how little the prices of our products have increased and how high our costs have increased! In 1988 we sold 612 lb. steer calves for $1.12/lb. We bought a new half ton 4X4 for $9200. Our dyed deisel was 18 cents(converted to US gal/$)...

I wasn't saying I would like to see revolution or rebellion, just the fact it could happen? Don't forget it was this present society and governments that have promoted the idea "You can have it all"! I'm not going to apologize for what I've accomplished in my life. I worked hard, invested my...

I often wonder how people will react if we get into a deep depression? In the great depression people didn't rise up and rebel in a big way against the system...not so sure how they would react today? My parents grew up in the depression and I think they never forgot the hard times and they...

All the time on TV I hear how times are tough and how bad the economy is? In Alberta things are slowing down as the oil/gas business tries to cope with low prices but you'd never know it. Buildings are stiil going up in the industrial parks and lots of new houses being built. Alberta car sales...