tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post4212399347098916116..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: Time to Take Stock - On Turning 500,000The Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-16459911828841213932012-03-28T21:49:00.826-07:002012-03-28T21:49:00.826-07:00Thank you for that, Anon. Yes that was a limited...Thank you for that, Anon. Yes that was a limited edition BSA Lightning all of which were sold in the UK. It was sheer luck that I happened to be there with cash when they hit the market. I really don't think I have ever seen a better looking motorcycle. The stock version actually looked a little frumpy.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-31473555182559893752012-03-28T16:44:34.211-07:002012-03-28T16:44:34.211-07:00Sorry Mound, I really did intend to comment on it,...Sorry Mound, I really did intend to comment on it, that is a beautiful bike, I just got sidetracked by the mention that you may be moving on from blogging. That is how I think a motorcycle should look.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-68462732663061742552012-03-28T12:22:28.176-07:002012-03-28T12:22:28.176-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anyonghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15765384812104835792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-18164433978644334802012-03-27T22:21:29.977-07:002012-03-27T22:21:29.977-07:00BTW, can nobody acknowledge the Spitfiresque beaut...BTW, can nobody acknowledge the Spitfiresque beauty of this motorcycle? I fully meant to get a Triumph or Norton but when I walked into this on a spotlighted turntable at Harvey Owen in the Elephant & Castle I turned into jelly.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-47214708853974160162012-03-27T20:00:24.903-07:002012-03-27T20:00:24.903-07:00One of your readers cloaked in anonymity. Mainly b...One of your readers cloaked in anonymity. Mainly because it's easier to continue with this cloak, then to actually register. <br /><br />I've been a regular reader of your blog since I first stumbled upon it, though I don't recall how that happened. To be truthful it's only been about a year or so. I come back for your researched posts and your insight, because you care about what's important.<br /><br />I'm younger, late twenties, I haven't been following politics long, since I have been my opinion seems to be only worsening. I originally voted Liberal because that's what my parents suggested. The I started paying attention, saw that they were straying to far to the right, and that I liked the further left stance of the NDP that was available. Sadly I've realized my parents have also strayed to the right. <br /><br />I agree that the environment is our biggest issue we are facing (even though our politicians pretend it doesn't exist). That was why I voted NDP, I felt them most likely to be elected with some kind of stance for the environment. <br /><br />I suppose that all that is left now is the Green Party, which, if it were actually electable I think has a decent platform. I've also come to realize living in a Conservative stronghold in the middle of the bible belt, my voting, is utterly pointless. I can not think of a rational reason that I continue with it, but I do. <br /><br />Anyways, like others, I hope you do continue blogging. Thanks for the great reads and insight, and whatever you decide, have a good life. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-69671724246683812562012-03-27T14:06:40.315-07:002012-03-27T14:06:40.315-07:00Yours is one of my very favourite blogs that I tur...Yours is one of my very favourite blogs that I turn to for reasonable, and intelligent analysis of news that I very often also happen to care about.<br /><br />Thanks for sharing details of your life and this blog. And I naturally hope you continue to blog whenever you won't feel dispirited afterward.Saskboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13258259356749068135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-32468240624817105582012-03-27T11:44:22.149-07:002012-03-27T11:44:22.149-07:00If you look at the long term history is trending b...If you look at the long term history is trending better. Sure we have dark periods, but so far in modern history we have move on up continually. I agree Global Warming may be the mistake we can not correct.<br /><br />Here is what I wrote today to Jerry Agar a Toronto radio host and denier.<br /><br />No Jerry another hole in your creditably. Krakatoa erupted in 1883. This single volcano changed the earths climate for 5 years. Man's destructive use of carbon fuels has put way more gas into the environment than a million Krakatoa. To continue to deny that this would not have a effect on the earths climate is to continue to believe the earth was flat, or in Virgin birth. Remember the Iceland volcano that shut down aviation in Europe. Your gut would say it must have been putting out way more CO2 than the planes it grounded. Yet the fact is planes put out more than 50% CO2 per day than the volcano. The volcano lasted a few days, the planes fly every day. How can any sane person deny man is not affecting climate? http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2010/planes-or-volcano/Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14162783936999869984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-65729104047347855362012-03-27T09:32:08.834-07:002012-03-27T09:32:08.834-07:00Thanks for your thoughts. I didn't intend to ...Thanks for your thoughts. I didn't intend to suggest I was about to jump off a cliff, merely to take stock and explore alternatives.<br /><br />That said, the transformation of the NDP has shaken me more than I could have imagined. While I never supported the New Dems I always respected them over all others for their convictions which are now revealed more cheaply held than I thought. Harper must bask in glory as he watches the LPC and NDP help shift Canada's political center far to the right.<br /><br />And, LD, that HuffPost article. I can't recall how many times over how many years I've written on Harper's outrageous gagging of the civil and armed services. It's positively Stalinist and is toxic to any democracy.<br /><br />HuffPost, however, misses the critical point. When you gag the bureaucracy and simultaneously filter all communications with it from the public through your political appointees you have in all respects transformed the civil and armed services into partisan political agencies of the Ruler.<br /> <br />These commissars decide what enquiries from the public are permissible and then 'craft' (their actual term) the responses to conform to the Ruler's political policies.<br /><br />They create a disconnect between the public service and the country it is supposed to serve and hijack it to their own purposes.<br /><br />Our corporate media has the occasional brain fart over this but that quickly passes. The real failure, however, is with our flaccid opposition parties. They should be calling Harper out on this each and every day, raising holy hell, telling the country this despot has taken THEIR civil service hostage.<br /><br />What do we hear from the LPC and the NDP? Close to bugger all and that of itself should set off alarms. If we need an object lesson we only have to look at Obama. He came in to right the wrongs of Bush/Cheney. He was supposed to dismantle the excessive powers they had appropriated to the Executive Branch. Yet he's retained almost all of them and expanded a good many to boot. Undemocratic? Of course but who's counting?<br /><br />I don't trust either opposition party and I can't see why anyone should. We're becoming a true petro-state something often antithetical to liberal democracy.<br /><br />For most of my life I saw great things ahead for Canada but I don't any longer. Slowly over the past twenty years we collectively lost sight of what we had, what actually made us such a great country. We took too much and kept too little.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-64467018941841671322012-03-27T08:10:41.178-07:002012-03-27T08:10:41.178-07:00I agree with Beijing York that don’t go dark yet....I agree with Beijing York that don’t go dark yet. One of the blogs I read first every day is yours because I learn a lot from it. I am sure there are many more folks who do the same. <br /><br />Moreover, keeping in touch in this manner keeps one’s mind sharp and functional. I personally feel that whatever I have learned from life I must share although at times my mind and body tells me to give up. <br /><br />Look what Harper is doing to Canada. A story in the Huffpost is revealing. You know how to analyse it and give us your perspective on it.<br />http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/03/27/canada-scientists-media-muzzled_n_1381774.html?ref=canadaLeDarohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12526776746689708239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-86272655741313976212012-03-27T07:45:25.545-07:002012-03-27T07:45:25.545-07:00It's hard not to get distressed with the curre...It's hard not to get distressed with the current body politic. We've arrived to a point that I never would have imagined for us some 10-15 years ago. <br /><br />I hope you don't go dark. I learn so much from your well researched and thoughtful contributions.Beijing Yorkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05579118045254845839noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-87836191862429245132012-03-27T06:43:57.007-07:002012-03-27T06:43:57.007-07:00We seem to be of the same generation, Mound. Like ...We seem to be of the same generation, Mound. Like you, my first campaign was Trudeau's. I will always remember going to a local shopping centre in Montreal<br />and watching kids react as if they had seen the Beetles.<br /><br />Like you, after graduation I went south -- to the University of North Carolina -- where I noticed immediately that the neighbourhood changed when you entered the Negro side of town.<br /><br />And, like you, I'm not particularly hopeful about the future. But I keep recalling my late father's dictum: "Don't let the bastards get you down!"Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.com