In a recent poll by Ipsos Reid, carried out for Canwest News Service and Global Television, 71 per cent of Canadians are “really angry or upset” about skyrocketing gas prices. Duh!
Among other things were mad about our taxes, were mad about the lousy airline services, were mad about ticket surcharges were mad about text messaging fees, where even mad at Tibet, well not at Tibet really but it what’s happening in Tibet. On the eve of the Beijing Olympics, 43 per cent are angry about the Chinese government crackdown in Tibet.
It seems we have pent-up frustration, and we don’t have an outlet for our anger. Well I’ve got a couple of outlets, but I don’t think that it’s polite to mention them in mixed company. According to a new poll on the national outlook by Ipsos the angry population consists of two groups; 1 — 20% of the total — we’re the ones who are doing something to show our frustration and then there’s the other — 35% — who are bottling up their anger because they can’t “do anything about it.”
Baloney!
Gilbert Murphy is a 74-year-old horse rancher from the Williams Lake area. He had this to say about the above statement. “In the early days, when the Second World War was on, nobody wanted to fight Canadians. We had a reputation as a fierce bunch of fighting people, proud people. But politicians have made us into a wimp nation,” he says. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=a69ee56d-a30f-4ea4-9a77-5f3df13f8006
Gilbert, I couldn’t agree with you more. That was exactly the case when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s.
Whenever the Liberals were in power between the 70s and late 90s there seemed to have been a definite diminishment of Canadian morals in the worldview. I still remember Jean Chretien’s facial expression when interviewed on American television about the horror that just occurred in New York after 9/11. The looks of disdain, if not in his words were very distinct in his expression. It was as if he was blaming them for being attacked by terrorists. Don’t quote me on this, but I think He mentioned something about their own foreign policy was to blame for their recent Injuries .I was extremely embarrassed for my country. It was as though I had just told my neighbour that all the people that were killed that day were their own fault. I was extremely happy to see that man defeated at the polls.
Recently, a London England newspaper reported that the only decent leader at the G-8 was Stephen Harper. I’m not exactly sure that that’s true, but it sure makes me feel prouder to be a Canadian than I did seven years ago when the Liberals were in power.

Getting back to a mad Canadian. My pet peeve of the moment is the gas prices that we’ve experienced in the past two or three months. One consolation is that we’re not the only people on Earth are suffering. Gas prices have gone up, if you don’t count some subsidies, equally throughout the world. It is causing major hardships in all sectors of our economy.
There seems to be a glimmer of hope on the horizon. The price last week went down from $149 per barrel to $123 per barrel. What really burns my butt is the fact that when the price of a barrel hits its high mark it only took the gas stations half a second to raise the prices to $1.49 a litre in my area. Now it’s been nearly 2 weeks since the price dropped by more than $20. Their sure taking their sweet time to bring it down to even $1.40 a litre.
I am happy that the population seems to be disturbed with what’s happening in the world around them. I would just be happier if they would be a little bit more vocal about it.

Serge

Vancouver Police have identified one of the five human feet that have washed up on B.C. shores in the past year, according to news reports. RCMP in B.C. told CTV News one of the first two feet found on islands in the Strait of Georgia matches the DNA of a depressed man who went missing last year. It wasn’t clear from the report which foot matched. Police told the news agency they planned to talk to the man’s family yesterday. More information may be released next week. B.C. RCMP could not be reached yesterday to confirm the report. Five human feet, all wearing running shoes, have washed up on islands and the mainland in the Strait of Georgia since August, 2007. The mystery of whom the feet belong to has been covered extensively by the international media. Meanwhile, a Washington state coroner yesterday said he wants to work with the B.C. Coroners Service to see if there’s a connection between footless skeletal remains discovered in the San Juan Islands and the mysterious severed feet that have washed ashore in southwest B.C. Coroner Randall Gaylord said a body was discovered by a hiker on Orcas Island in the San Juan archipelago in March, 2007.

Out here in God’s country, beautiful British Columbia, people are not necessarily losing their heads, but we have received up to five mysterious lost feet.  The big story of course is that we’ve discovered that two of the 5 feet that mysteriously washed ashore over the past year are from the same man.  The right foot was found on Valdes Island in February the second and the left foot was found on Westham Island on June 16, and they matched through DNA testing. 

            The RCMP have said police have been going through release of hundreds of missing people trying to find a match.  Based on that information, the authorities have identified 243 missing males that could be associated with these feet.  So far they’ve been able to eliminate up to 132 people from that place.

The RCMP identified 159 women could match the missing female foot, but didn’t mention that they eliminated anybody from that list.

            One of the things I find interesting is that they can’t see anywhere where the feet were severed there are no tool marks on the feet.

            The RCMP spokeswoman Constable Ann Linteau said, “It appears that these feet have naturally disarticulated from the body through a natural process.”  Linteau also mentioned that they ruled out the possibility that some of the feet may belong to murder victims.

            My particular interest in the story is that a man and his 12-year-old daughter visiting from the US found the first foot on Jedediah Island.  In the early 90s, as a real estate agent, a client approached me and offered to purchase Jedediah Island. I’m sure there’s no connection to the man from the US and his 12-year-old daughter but I still have some very vivid images of that beautiful piece of real estate burned into my brain.

            The discovery of a second foot was found on the beach relatively near my former home on Gabriola Island. The third foot was found on Valdes Island adjacent to Gabriola Island.  We were starting to get worried that we had people dumping bodies near our beautiful islands.  All sorts of theories existed at the time from mob hits to gang wars to ship wrecks and shark attacks. 

The feet kept showing up. The fourth foot was found on Kirkland Island at the mouth of the Fraser River and the fifth foot, The only left foot, was found on Westham Island at the mouth of the Fraser River.  Both of these Islands or on the other side Strait of Georgia, and are relatively far enough away from Gabriola and Valdes.  It kind of alleviated our fears about murderers in close proximity to our beautiful islands.

            Reading the paper the other day I noticed that they found a 6^th foot on a beach in Sweden earlier this week, and the authorities are trying to figure out if it was tied into the British Columbia floating feet.

            I guess it just goes to show that nothings ever boring in beautiful British Columbia.  There’s always something interesting happening.

Hi and welcome to my new blog. The reason that I’m starting a blog is to attempt to retain my wife’s sanity at family gatherings.
It seems that I have a tendency to give my opinion way too often at family gatherings and the only one that seems to agree with them is my mother in-law, Now that’s one hell of a woman. Anyway my wife has a penchant to try the change the subject when the air in the room starts to thicken with discord. She recently suggested that I could find some kindred spirits writing a blog and therefore leaving the siblings free to enjoy a turkey dinner without the fear of a Serge induced heartburn.
Well I’m willing to give it a try but I’m sure my mother in-law will complain because the lack of volitile discussion might be missing from the dinner table.
Hope you enjoy this and please e-mail me with dinner topics I can share with the outlaws.

Thanks

Serge J. Dupuis