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Just ironic 13-04-11
I think it is just ironic listening to the news that when forces loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi attack the rebels, they are killing civilians but when the rebel forces kill the same people, the Gaddafi forces are using them as a human shield. Does this seem odd to some people? For some others I have to spell it out, IT IS ALL ABOUT OIL!!! I think from here on in I have to be a little more descriptive giving more historic background and facts and not to be ironic..., because irony only works if you understand certain issues such as the Americans and British are only interested in the OIL.., when racists spray paint an Aboriginal school in Thunder Bay, it is because they HATE Aboriginal people. It is only out of their own ignorance due to their limited education they truly dont understand what it means to live in a society under Nazi rule. Some people say ignorance is bliss..., I am one that disagrees. People were igorance about the Nazi party and look what happened in the 40's.
Facebook is killing my blogging 03-27-11
The last couple of years I havent really written anything on this site. Facebook is just way to easy to update while this site..., coding..., coding..., coding... There is something to be said about point and click. Coding is so old school anyways.
I was just reading a couple of articles of interest. Pretty soon you cant take any pictures of any farms in Florida and Iowa. Guess it has to be with those documentaries that came out a couple of years back. I thought Food Inc. should have beaten out The Cove at the Oscars.. So what if a couple of people eat dolphins..., what is the difference between eating a dolphin compared to a dog, cat, or monkey. It isnt like it is an endangered mammal. In fact there are almost forty species of dolphin in seventeen genera and the family Delphinidae is the largest in the Cetacean order. Sure they have a highly developed frontal cortex but dont monkeys have that as well. At least monkeys are bipeds like us..., but lack the functionality that we have. I think 17% of our brains function comes from the frontal cortex..., monkeys..., 14%..., dog..., 5% and a cat..., 0%.... A dolphin does not have a cat or dog brain but we never cry fowl when someone cracks open a monkey for a snack. On top of that..., dolphins are safer too..., 33.3 million people have aids which is a virus that came from the monkeys... Dolphins are filled with omega 3,6 and 9..., cant go wrong with that..., good for the heart and the brain.. I think it was just a scam that The Cove won an Oscar. They just dont want people to know what happens in those farms so they create a documentary based on a couple of tuna eating mammals.
Another things that gets my goat..., this whole war in Libya.. Everyone is saying the reason the western world in involved is because of the attack on civilians (which is bad I agree). Didnt the British and Americans kill hundreds of thousands of civilians in Iraq alone over a five year period. How come no one is crying crimes against humanity on that? We all know the only reason they went there in the first place is because of oil and what does Libya have a lot of..., oil of course. Look at Syria and the mass killings going on there..., where is their empathy when it comes to countries without oil? You cant tell me that this isnt also effecting Saudi Arabia as well who stated that these demonstrations will not be tolerated. The media and their red herrings. Were all just pavlov's dog...
Neegan Crescent 02-19-11
Geez..., I really have to clean up the coding on this page. Well anyways the town of Mattice has passed a by-law stating the area by the Missinabie River will be renamed Neegan Crescent. Mattice is my familys traditional territory and it just so happened that they build the town around my familys homestead (not that there is anything wrong with that).
The joke could be on me 02-13-11
I was thinking about a conversation I had a couple weeks ago. Thinking about God and spirituality. My religious or spirituality can be described in two words..., monotheism transcendence meaning I believe in one God that transcends Space and Time. (Albert Einsteins thing..., space time that is...) Other than that I can say I am religiously promiscuous. Not that I really am but after watching for years; people, communities and societies fight over how they believe in God over why they believe in God. I think the why is more important than the how or what. The why in all religious (or the majority) beliefs are the same..., people who want to do good. Same with spirituality for the most part..., people want to be good. I am coming close to the middle of my life and even thou that there are some gaps here and there.., that in no way is enough to change my spirituality to an atheist point of view saying there is no God.
But then again.., what if there was no God.., then the joke would be on me. I live my life with God or Creator in mind. I get so much strength from prayer and just the ability to pray is important. I am not happy with all things in my life but prayer does get me over the tough spots. I do in the best of my abilities to be a good person all the time but also I am no way whatsoever perfect and never will be (that title is reserved for the very few people that existed in humanitys history). If I intentionally lie all the time.., steal..., do bad things to people (justified or not)..., it will take my ability to pray. How can I pray if I am suppose to be trying to be a good person.., I cant.
But atheists..., dont pray because they dont believe in a God, Gods or spirituality. They may meditate but that is not prayer. I am not saying that atheists are evil in anyway..., just that they dont believe in a God. Some of the most evil things done on this planet has been made in the name of God. Whole societies have been wiped out (but I think it was an issue of land ownership but they just said it was in the name of God to get more land..., I get that).
So the joke would be on me if there was no God. So it could say that I wasted my whole life on a fictional character. Even thou my profession is no where link to astro-physics..., astronomy..., or even basic science for that fact..., I would like to think I know a few things here and there. I can understand why after examining all the facts that a person would conclude there is no God. The concept of science is proof and that it has to be repeated. Gravity..., there is no proof but it can be repeated day after day..., moment after moment... I let go of this pencil.., it will drop. How can you prove there is a God when the only people who really hear God could be classified as crazy. If someone came to me and said that God talks to them all the time like what happened to Moses.., I would ask them to turn a cane into a snake..., or I would be following every nut job out there..., but anyways...
Like I said.., the joke would be on me. From the earliest memories of my life to probably moments before my death..., I am going down as a believer. If I am right..., the joke would be on them..., right???
Merry Christmas 12-26-10
I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas. It has been a while since I wrote here with three seasons has passing by in a blink of an eye. I started a new job as CEO of Wawatay Native Communication Society in Sioux Lookout. It was hard for me to leave my friends at NNEC, probably the hardest job I had to leave in recent memory. I am very grateful for the words that my former boss bestowed before my departure. It also has been 10 years living in the Red Lake / Sioux Lookout area.
On the front page of the Sioux Bulletin, I was reading an article that the town of Sioux Lookout was claiming victory that they did not have to maintain the road to Lac Seul and Pelican Falls High School. This is the thing I dont understand, if the municipality had no intention of maintaining the road, why did they expand their boundary to include the roads leading to Lac Seul and Pelican. You have a highschool full of northern First Nation students attending school and the first priority should be the safety of the students. Instead what has happened is the road leading to Pelican is voted the worst road in Ontario with a big sign that reads this road is not maintained by the municipality of Sioux Lookout, use at your own risk.
It makes me wonder if the town will stop picking up my garbage (not that they do anyways) because of my Aboriginal ancestry. I should consider myself lucky that non-Natives are living down the road on Drayton or my road wont be maintained either. What really bugs me is that Aboriginal people pump millions into the town of Sioux Lookout and yet they cant ensure that our kids are safe like the kids attending Queen Elizabeth. We shouldnt tolerate that behavior and stop sinking millions of dollars into Sioux.., we should stand with our brothers and sisters at Pelican and Lac Seul.
Gliese 710 15-03-10
This is pretty interesting. In about 1.5 million years from now, give or take a few years, an orange dwarf star named Gliese 710 is heading in our direction and has an 86 percent chance of the smashing through the Oort Cloud which is located in the outer part of our solar system. What does this mean for us..., well..., it could have the devastating effect of scattering the icy Oort Cloud objects causing them to plunge toward the sun and the inner planets, potentially bombarding Earth with comets. Not good news for us earthlings. In 1997, the European Space Agency's Hipparcos spacecraft analyzed data from 100,000 stars, compiling what is known as the Hipparcos Catalogue. 156 of these local stars are of particular interest to astronomers as the sun was thought to be a lot closer to them in the past and there is a high possibility they will make a close approach again. Interesting stuff...
Something like this must have happened 65 million years ago. Million and a half years from now isnt that far off..., mind you my body would have evolved into something else..., my matter would have decayed..., turned to soil..., then turned to grass..., then eaten..., then eaten again..., then eaten again..., decay...., grass..., eaten again..., hey..., kinda sounds like the Hindu revision of spirituality..., reincarnation but more pragmatic than spiritual. Maybe that is why they hold the cow as a scared animal.., all their ancestors are sitting in that beast. For us..., we have no problem chewing down on a steak with a glass of milk..., Mmm..., steak... Yup...
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In case you are wondering where the hell Mattice, Ontario is on Highway 11 (where I grew up), look for this dinosaur on the side of the road. Also if you are parched after hours..., this is the place to be along with 9 other excellent locations to serve you.
This is me in a Lapplander Traditional "Dwelling" in Finland
Near Fort Severn's Goose Camps
Near Tampere, Finland
Me with Grandpa Sandy
Back in the day in Mattice
Quotes
"Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for insects as well as for the stars. Human beings, vegetables or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance." - Albert Einstein
"Let sleeping dogs rest" - unknown
"I intend to live forever, or die trying" - Justin Neegan
"Ninty-Five percent of enjoying the wilderness is knowing it's there" - John Sills in reference to the people of the south.
"When traveling (abroad) ..., sometimes it is hard to tell someone what they just ate, it could be a monkey, dog, anything..." Osmo's answer when I asked what I ate for breakfast.
Donna Orr, the only Orr I know besides Bobby - Ted Nolan
"...keep your goals as high as you can dream, and if you fall short they will be higher than is you aimed too low." - Dale
Religion is the opium of the masses - Tom Wassakeesic
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. - Albert Einstein
Gas to Calstock: $40.00, Food for the road: $40.00, Getting to Calstock at 4:30am, no one awake, going to Hearst for a hotel, no rooms available, heading to Mattice at 5:30am for other hotels and finding out there are no longer any hotels there: PRICELESS - Tanya Spence
Locks only keep the honest people out - Mike Peltenon
..... if the coffee is too strong, just add water. You can make strong coffee weak but you cant make weak coffee strong.. - John Perry's memo to KO staff
The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That's what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens - Arnold Schwarzenegger
"I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - Groucho Marx
"I am too lazy too type, I call!!!" - Graeme Bouchard-Wood
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Hobbies: Cross Country Skiing, weight lifting, running, golf. hunting, guitar (classical, electric) trapping, reading, writing, badminton, astronomy, astro-physics, world philosophy / religion, mythology (Viking, Finnish, Greek, Celtic and First Nation), ancient history, outdoor stuff, health / fitness and cooking...
Favorite Movies: Return of the King, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Clear Cut
Favorite Comedy: Dumb and Dumber, Naked Gun
Favorite Classic: Singing in the Rain, Children of the Damn, Little Big Man
Favorite Sappy Movie: Notting Hill
Favorite Singer: Hank Williams Sr. (Male), Shania Twain (female), Van Halen (Group)
Best Wings (Hottest): Up in Smoke - (Thunder Bay) note you have to ask for the hottest possible or they wont give it to you but their XXX is very hot nonetheless.., .runner ups: Dick and Nillies (Sioux), Montanas, Chicken Chef (Sioux)
Best Ribs and Chicken: Northwood Lodge (Red Lake)
Best Chilli: Travlers (Vermillion Bay)
Best Pancakes: Hottios (Thunder Bay)
Best Pizza: Toppers (Sudbury), Pizza Place (Hearst)
Worlds Best Chicken Balls and Chicken Fried Rice: Kings Café (Hearst) Note: according to Time Magazine if you dont mind eating it with toast, its a Hearst thing.
Best Prime Rib: Old Mill (Ancaster)
Best view while eating: 360 (Toronto)
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