dave524

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/father-of-massacre-suspect-omar-mateen-supports-taliban-on-his-tv-show Some more that the liberal jihad deniers failed to mention in their push for more gun control http://observer.com/2016/06/jihad-denial-kills-again/

His marriage was a shortlived affair and no children, have you read the about his father yet ???????? apple don't fall far from the tree.

What kind of work? looks like he is a trained and licenssed professional. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/omar-mateen-orlando-gay-night-club-gunman-worked-for-global-security-firm-g4s-a7078476.html

2 days earlier, a hero took action, even without a gun, while his sister lay dying, only 2 miles from this massacre, that situation could have turned equally as deadly by the weaponry the shooter had with him. Make your choice, victim or fight back .

The majority of firearms enthusiasts in Canada are not even hunters, that statement makes about as much sense as you don't need a power boat to go fishing.

or a pressure cooker bomb and the toll goes up

Radicalized American born Muslim edit: http://www.tmz.com/2016/06/12/terrorist-omar-mateen-gay-nightclub-murder/

I have this one on my phone, old school topographical maps like I grew up with 50 years ago, you can really get a lot of info from them if you know how to read them. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atlogis.camaps.free&hl=en

Here's an idea. I'm retired and we have only one vehicle, a 2006 Liberty with 72,000 kms, what's that, 7200 kms a year but I just renewed my plates at $108, same as a high mileage driver . Let's take this as the base amount and for everytime you multiply my mileage you multiply your license fee by a corresponding amount, so if you drive 5 X 7200 km. in a year, your license fee would be 5 X $108 dollars. Sounds fair to me. penalize those with a large carbon footprint.

Of course I believe in air pollution, I lived in the Hammer from 77 to 84 and worked in the steel industry there for over 30 years. I've seen the yellow haze over the city when cresting the mountain on Centennial Parkway 35 years ago, its gone now. We haven't been " doing nothing "since those days, the situation in my lifetime is dramatically improved, I agree with doing something, what I do disagree with is going overboard " cutting off your nose to spite your face " policies. I have COPD and my wife has emphysema, believe me, air quality is an issue for us, but also is the financial ability to heat our house in winter and air conditioning is mandatory for us in summer. Financially crippling policies , based on questionable science, when we are a minor player, possibly carbon neutral, when looking at the rest of the world's nations track record, gets me going . edit: The last 30/40 years haven't been a do nothing period as you seem to suggest.

Climate change is not a hoax, we have in fact be getting warmer for several hundred years, long before any CO2 emissions from human activity could add to the trend, there is data out there that suggests that over the last few millennia that climate change and CO2 levels don't even track together.. Lots of other factors can contribute to warming .

Any movement at all, I've had more issues with texting pedestrians stepping off a curb without looking more than any drivers. edit: other day I got clipped in the heel by a texting shopper pushing a cart at Food Basics.

My kids and grandkids have had it far too easy compared to my youth, they could use some adversity in their lives , might get them off the social media.

Seems all 3 lakes have degraded severely since my time with the unauthorized introduction of perch , bass and other undesirable species. Shame, fond memories of that area as youth. Thanks, for bringing back the memory of a great trip with dad, still got the 308 Mitchell and Heddon Pal ultralight I bought for those trips, http://www.muskokawaterweb.ca/images/mnr/Louie_Lake.pdf http://www.muskokawaterweb.ca/images/mnr/crown_lake.pdf http://www.muskokawaterweb.ca/images/mnr/Wolf_Lake_Livingstone.pdf

I believe they are both trout lakes, lakers and specs. Just before you get to them you will find Louie and Little Louie Lakes, I remember a couple of trips with dad were we caught lots of specs up to 3 or so pounds in Louie predominantly but that was in the mid sixties with the canoe on top of the 64 Pontiac wagon on Victoria Day weekend.

Guess it has to do with large temperature changes http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/Home/Topics/FishSpecies/Details.aspx?PostID=362

I don't know about you, but at my age and in my little corner of the world the air and water is a lot better than it was in the sixties and seventies. I see the so called status quo as a marked improvement over the past 40 years. I'd rather drive my combustion engine to a free flowing river than my electric car to a reservoir. As I said , pick your poison.

All electric power has an environmental cost, some of us just have different views on which poison to swallow.

The ones we dip net in early spring back then were not the same as the ones that died off. We ate the long thin smelts, the dead ones were a much deeper bodied fish.

What discipline/s are you into ? Not all ranges have everything, I liked centre fire rifles, had 200 yds at the range I belonged to, would have enjoyed more. Some are shotgun only, trap ,skeet or sporting clays.

When Howard Tanner first introduced the Pacific Salmon to the great lakes almost 50 years ago it was to control the alewive population and the massive dieoffs every year. We are nearing the conclusion of a successful experiment. We will never again have the numbers or size of salmon that we had during the glory years . An alewife hatchery would be a step backwards, makes as much sense as introducing Gobies to inland lakes as they help produce big Smallies.

I was Park Naturalist at Long Point Provincial for a couple of years back in the mid seventies, even then I saw fewer of them than Blanding's or Spotted Turtles. While all the other species would come onto land from the marsh side of the point this time of year to lay their eggs, the Softshells made the lake side home and would return there after laying their eggs. I suspect while most turtles like to get out of the water on logs or such to bask in the sun the Softshells live their lives in the water.

Co founder of Greenpeace shows some logic with regard to the cause of climate change, I always identified that group with the environment scammers.

I remember him and a whole slew of other guys named Bobby in the early 60's, Bobby Darrin, Bobby Vee, Bobby Rydell , Bobby Vinton, sure there was a few more. I was pretty much a folkie before the British Invasion .

yes , Mergansers, Loons and other diving duck can't walk on land, busted wing sounds logical , were there and power lines nearby that he could have flown into ? If a Loon or Merganser is grounded away from water it is pretty well a death sentence, getting it back into the water at least gives him a chance.