I have often written about my love for traveling in Canada. This video reminds me why I love Canadians. At the November 18, 2014 Maple Leafs game against the Nashville Predators, the mic cut off during the singing of our national anthem so the Canadians finished singing the song for us.
Of course, this will not influence my loyalty when the Maple Leafs next play my Chicago Blackhawks. The Hawks play the Calgary Flames tonight without rookie defenseman Trevor van Riemsdyk who is injured. He is the he younger brother of Toronto Maple Leafs forward James van Riemsdyk. I will be watching tonight in full Hawks regalia.
Chuck Stanley:
Your video of Lai Youttiham is amazing. What a talented man. Thank you for posting it!
Michael Haz, Jim Rose:
My understanding is that the oil from the tar sands is actually being shipped to China and is not used in this country. As to the subject of fracking and ground water pollution, the following is reported ACTUAL RESEARCH from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science:
Increased stray gas abundance in a subset of drinking water wells near Marcellus shale gas extraction
Robert B. Jacksona,b,1, Avner Vengosha, Thomas H. Darraha, Nathaniel R. Warnera, Adrian Downa,b, Robert J. Poredac, Stephen G. Osbornd, Kaiguang Zhaoa,b, and Jonathan D. Karra,b
Author Affiliations
Edited by Susan E. Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, and approved June 3, 2013 (received for review December 17, 2012)
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Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing are transforming energy production, but their potential environmental effects remain controversial. We analyzed 141 drinking water wells across the Appalachian Plateaus physiographic province of northeastern Pennsylvania, examining natural gas concentrations and isotopic signatures with proximity to shale gas wells. Methane was detected in 82% of drinking water samples, with average concentrations six times higher for homes <1 km from natural gas wells (P = 0.0006). Ethane was 23 times higher in homes <1 km from gas wells (P = 0.0013); propane was detected in 10 water wells, all within approximately 1 km distance (P = 0.01). Of three factors previously proposed to influence gas concentrations in shallow groundwater (distances to gas wells, valley bottoms, and the Appalachian Structural Front, a proxy for tectonic deformation), distance to gas wells was highly significant for methane concentrations (P = 0.007; multiple regression), whereas distances to valley bottoms and the Appalachian Structural Front were not significant (P = 0.27 and P = 0.11, respectively). Distance to gas wells was also the most significant factor for Pearson and Spearman correlation analyses (P < 0.01). For ethane concentrations, distance to gas wells was the only statistically significant factor (P < 0.005). Isotopic signatures (δ13C-CH4, δ13C-C2H6, and δ2H-CH4), hydrocarbon ratios (methane to ethane and propane), and the ratio of the noble gas 4He to CH4 in groundwater were characteristic of a thermally postmature Marcellus-like source in some cases. Overall, our data suggest that some homeowners living <1 km from gas wells have drinking water contaminated with stray gases.
OR as summarized in The Economist:
Concentrations of the gas in such homes were also six times higher than for those farther away. Levels of ethane and propane, other ingredients of natural gas, were higher, too. All were well above the levels the Department of Interior considers safe. The relationship cannot be put down to gasmen's penchant for plonking their drills in spots where natural gas is most abundant in the first place. In the absence of drilling the gas, being trapped in the shale beds 1,500-2,500 metres beneath the countryside, would stay put; concentrations nearer to the surface would remain unaffected.
Nor, Dr Jackson insists, did his team cherry-pick homes whose occupants complained of high methane concentrations, as some critics of his research have suggested. Finally, the analysed drilling sites were dotted more or less randomly around the Marcellus so the contamination cannot be pinned on a clutch of rule-breaking wells. The existing rules, in other words, may not be tight enough.
Also, Obama's first EPA chief was Lisa Jackson. The Gasland film was made by Josh Fox.
The decrease is crude oil prices is mainly a function of a decrease in demand. Even here in the U.S., our daily consumption is over 2 million barrels less than what it was prior to the economic collapse. Obviously, demand has also been falling in Europe. Second, OPEC is not going to increase crude prices since that will only benefit the tar sands/fracking people, who have much higher production costs than conventional producers. If we allow energy policy to be determined by the energy industry, there will be no serious alternative energy efforts until every last drop of oil has been squeezed out of every last geologic formation and every last ounce of coal has been blasted out of the Appalachians.
Jim22, Thanks for sharing the memory of your dad, and the perfect gift to a son.
@Karen S:
You are right on the money Karen.
The Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite hypocrisy on green energy knows no bounds.
30,000 Bald Eagles, yes 30,000 Bald Eagles were killed last year because of green energy windmills and frying on the very solar panels you mentioned.
Not a Word from the environmentalist. Not one word.
Why? Because Obama issued a wavier for those green energy companies to violate the Endangered Species Act and kill all the animals needed to achieve their Green goals.
Come to think of it, that is another form of
But wait there’s more……
Due to the massive influx of illegal aliens and that pesky Endangered smelt minnow, Liberals refuse to allow the water to flow to the humans that desperately need it in California.
Pure and simple Gruberistic Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite Hypocrisy
Jim Rose
Nick, Yep, born and raised in NY. Spent some time in CA and moved back in 04. The Twin Cities house my football team. But after the witch hunt they did on AP, I’m done with all of football. Which is a shame since I was looking forward to seeing them play real football again outside for the next two years.
That early 80’s Islander team was something special (16-3 in the finals for those four years). I can still name pretty much every player. I was so happy when they took it to Edmonton In 83. And especially gratifying was Gretzky getting a big goose egg for the series. Although I may be biased, I always thought Trottier was an all-around better center. My dad worked with a guy who grew up with Al Arbour. My dad wasn’t a hockey fan but one Christmas dad gave me a puck that his friend got for him that was signed by Trottier and met the back of the net as the last goal scored in a 6-1 win against the Rangers. He might as well have given me a brick of gold.
Sandi
Peppier, perhaps, but both are pablum compared to the ‘Marseillaise’.
schulte
Try reading Peter C. Newman’s ‘Vimy’. An internationally respected Canadian historian, journalist, and writer. I would not rely on the internet and Wikpedia and I would certainly be careful of referencing the American education you may or may not have had, may or may not have retained. Forgetting more than I have ever known is not that effective a point to make in a discussion. Of course history is written by the ‘winners’.
issac – so, you read a book. Good for you. I am sure that since you previously stated that your backup material was all on the internet you should be able to cite. So, cite it.
@Annie: Your response is an excellent example of another Saul Alinsky axiom.
-“When caught lying, accuse your adversary of the very same thing you are guilty of.”
Yet another related Saul Alinsky axiom.
“When you cant argue the facts, commit baseless personal attacks” and the modern Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite online implementations such as “attack the poster because of his or her grammar”. This one is the #1 way to spot a member of the Liberal/Progressive/Socialist Elite.
Annie, since you are accusing me of Grubberism, please point out the exact part of my post that is an outright lie? Betta Cant!
Thanks for committing Gruberism right here in front of everyone!
Jim Rose
When my half blind guy sings God Bless America at games or what not he inserts the word Dog in place of God. He even wrote that in on a 100 dollar bill and the guy at the bank would not accept the bill as true currency. Upon questioning it turned out the cashier at the bank admitted that he had not dog and was suffering from depression. The bank referred him to therapy.
I was assisting my half blind guy in a game of chess last night at the marina. He was playing a French speaking guy from Quebec who refused to speak English. So the game was going along and my half blind guy for whom I give dog guidance took the guy’s rook. The Quebecqois guy says: “A Canuk without a Rook, cannot stand!” And he quit the game. That was the only thing he said in English except for “Check”. Everytime he said “Check!”, the waiter at the marina bar handed him his billing check.
schulte
A country is its people. Of course except in cases where Sigfried leads to Wagner and then to Hitler, then a country kind of separates from the people and becomes something, well, potentially terrifying. With all you have forgotten you should try and remember that. As far as the term stormtrooper, Germans were most afraid of Canadian shock troops and referred to them as storm troopers. This became their label when they used the blitzkrieg, get it, lightning and storm. The British and French used Canadian shock troops before any others. Vimy Ridge was taken by 60,000 Canadian troops after numerous attempts by the French and British using 250,000 troops at a time. The British and French leaders didn’t think it could be done so didn’t have a few hundred thousand troops in reserver to follow the Canadian troops the several miles inland. They might have rolled back the German lines into Germany. General Currie was the first of all the allies and remained pretty much the only one to orchestrate an attack, practice it, and then coordinate artillery, machine gun squads, and assault troops. Even Pershing was impressed. Read up a little and then, forget it if you can’t retain anymore.
issac – cite it.
I don’t know the Canada anthem. I think ours is peppier.
Sandi – you can always tell the new citizens because they know all the words to the National Anthem.
Reblogged this on Citizens, not serfs.
Karen – the feeling is very special at an Olympics. I attended the 1984 Olympics in L.A. and got to sit near Princess Margaret during the cross-country at a water jump as she patiently explained to everyone what we should be looking for and what was good for horse and rider and what wasn’t. Then a doctor and his patients (who had too much food) invited my wife and I to lunch with them while we watched horses whiz by. People generously gave up prime viewing spots so others could get great photographs. The whole time we were there I never heard a cross word and only met people who were kind and generous regardless of the country they came from. We all clapped for the winners, it made no difference if they were our country or someone elses.
We even gave the ground crew a standing ovation. 🙂
Jim Rose:
I just heard on the radio yesterday, how Conservatives were ridiculed for claiming that increasing domestic oil (Drill Baby Drill) would bring prices down and decrease the money flowing into extremist coffers.
And yet, here we are, where private companies have increased oil production, and OPEC has lowered the price of oil.
I definitely want us to keep reaching for clean, renewable energy. Oil is finite and dirty. But if we switched off all oil now, we would be chopping down trees to heat our homes, and walking everywhere, becoming more provincial, among other things. We are still in the Beta test stage of many renewables. A case in point is the solar array in the desert that is literally frying thousands of birds a year, a decimation that would never be tolerated by oil and gas companies. And yet, clean energy producers are allowed to get away with killing endangered birds and given a free pass. Who approved a concentrating solar array? Didn’t any of these guys hear about kids burning ants with magnifying glasses? What did they think was going to happen? Same thing with the annoyingly loud wind farms that kill thousands of birds every year.
One day, we will achieve affordable, clean, renewable energy. I hope it happens soon. In the meantime, it’s ignorant to think that we currently have the infrastructure and technology to make it happen instantly. We’ve made great strides, and improvements, but we’re not quite there yet. I will be cheering loudly when we do, but I’m not going to delude myself into thinking we’ve already achieved this goal.
Coup d’ etat in America.
Liberals were strongly defeated in the election and have decided to take over the government.
Mexicans have illegally and unconstitutionally ABUSED the 14th Amendment for decades (14th addressed children born in American of ex-slaves with no citizenship – not Mexican babies).
Liberals and Mexicans are conducting a coup d’ etat in America.
That’s so cool.
What great sportsmanship.
Reminds me of the winter Olympics where a coach for another team lent a competitor a pair of ski poles, who then went on to beat his own team. There is still honor in sports, sometimes. 🙂
schulte,
The term ‘storm troopers’ that the Germans used was first used by them to refer to Canadian shock troops in WW1. In every instance where Canadians fought they outfought their opponents. Canadian troops liberated Holland. Don’t confuse numbers with quality. The US has the numbers and the quality in their troops. However, US leaders historically have shamed their nation. Viet Nam, Iraq, Nicaragua, Cuba, Chile, Iran, etc. Man for man and woman for woman for that matter, Canadians are second to none.
Google Vimy Ridge, Juno Beach, Italian campaign, and then speak. Don’t confuse gutless with a level of morality and common sense. Also, it is too soon after the ‘slaughter of the innocents’ in Iraq and Afghanistan perpetrated by the most arrogant incompetent leaders in recent history to talk about being historically challenged. With today’s archives on the internet, it can’t be that hard to become informed, however, it must take some effort to remain ignorant.
issac – can you get me a cite to that Canadian stormtrooper thing. What I find is the Germans inventing them in WWI. That is what I learned in history school and when I googled it again that is what came up. FYI, I have forgotten more than you will ever know.
And, I said the Canadians were gutless as a country, not a people. Reading is hard.
Gruberific !