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Mac Rex replied to Steph S.'s discussion 'For Many Species, Moving Day Has Added Stress - article on Migrations' in the group Hang With Friends
I told my boss these observations, and other wild life observations, and usually get a lecture on distracted driving (something about paying attention to the "goat trails" I drive on, hauling 40 to 50 tonnes, instead of the wild life)!…
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Mac Rex replied to Steph S.'s discussion 'For Many Species, Moving Day Has Added Stress - article on Migrations' in the group Hang With Friends
I mentioned the Snowy Owls, because I've noticed some changes this year.  To start with, when winter comes to the prairie, up here, most of our hawks (predominantly Red Tail Hawks) leave, and then the Snowy Owls show up.  This year,…
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Mac Rex replied to Natalie A Sera's discussion 'Judaism, Jewishness and everything you were never taught in school about it.' in the group Hang With Friends
Um, I think that was what I was saying...
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Mac Rex replied to Natalie A Sera's discussion 'Judaism, Jewishness and everything you were never taught in school about it.' in the group Hang With Friends
I've heard Ashkenazi Jews referenced as Yiddish, as they were the people who spoke it.  Also -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AshkenaziThis also seems to miss my point about them being genetically very removed from people who's ancestors…
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I'm the last of eight children, and the first time I want to church was when I was four. The church was next to our house, and one Sunday morning my 6 year old sister and I paid them a visit and sang with them. They were not pleased with our singing talent and kicked us out, so we through mud balls down the isles. They then locked us out and, when the sermon was over, went next door to our place and complained to my father, who promptly told them to get the fuck off his property.
1968, when I was seven, was an election year in Canada, and my family was living in the city of Regina, capital of the province of Saskatchewan. There was a new young (relatively)and dynamic Liberal Party of Canada candidate for Prime Minister - Pierre Trudeau, who would become Canada's 28th, 29, 30th and 32nd Prime Ministers (1968 - 79, and 1980 to 84), and the longest serving. My father took me to met him at an election rally at the Regina legislature building, and I met the man briefly, but what I remember most of that wasn't meting Canada's next Prime Minister. I remember the stones that the Legislature building were made of - sedimentary rock laced with the fossils of Trilobite, clams and all sorts of odd extinct critters, and of my father explaining that they had lived in that area hundreds of millions of years ago, when the Canadian prairies were part of a seabed. No mere politician could match the awe that I felt that day. I thank my father and mother for having not infected my young mind with meme of religion, and for all of the trips to Badlands of Saskatchewan, Alberta, Montana, the Dakotas and the Rocky mountains, where I would look for fossils. The short sightedness of religion can't begin to compete with the wonder of the real history of our little blue ball.
My main hobby is machining (and blowing up small rockets -HA!), but I love to read books of science, with an emphasis on evolution and genes (Dawkin's "The Ancestor's Tale" is a fave, as is Bryan Sykes' "Seven Daughters of Eve").
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Oil patch Truckdriver
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At 10:52am on September 12, 2011, Steph S.Steph S. said…

Hey Mac -- thanks for sharing your stories with me.  I feel honored that you decided to type to me -- since you don't do that so much anymore.  You have a very interesting life -- orcas and wolves and coyotes. I would love to see that stuff.  I am introverted myself -- so I understand how you would prefer cats to people. 

I think it will be a full moon tonight - so I will think of you howling with the coyotes. Take Care -- hope to chat with you later! : )

At 8:13pm on September 8, 2011, Steph S.Steph S. said…

Mac - you are certainly not dumb.  I read your most intelligent reply to my discussion. You are very smart! 

I can tell you read books by scientists.

You have a very important job! : )

Thanks for responding to my discussion. : )

At 8:12pm on September 7, 2011, Steph S.Steph S. said…

Hi Mac Rex -- I'm glad that you appreciated my discussion on cell communication.

 

At 11:55am on May 15, 2011, Ruth Anthony-GardnerRuth Anthony-Gardner said…
Greetings, Mac! I'd like to invite you to a group where we talk about anything on our minds, Hang With Friends. :D
At 11:05pm on November 8, 2010, Richard GoscickiRichard Goscicki said…
Thanks, Mac. One more question. Are Somalis landing on the west coast the same way Columbus and the rest of the Spanish landed in the new world?

They're the most fecund people in Africa and hence the whole world. Something like 8.2 offspring per woman. These fucking Mormons with five wives are the only people that can compete with them, except maybe the Duggars of Arkansas if you know who they are.

Stay out of the can, OK? Happened to me once for a DUI. I said to myself, never again. Don't let it happen. That was in 1995. A nightmare, just one night.

How about this one? Let's propose a bill to make political corruption a treasonous crime against the people. A capital offense. We just got to get politicians to vote for it.
At 7:31pm on November 8, 2010, Richard GoscickiRichard Goscicki said…
Mac, how ya been? What's this about a Muslim getting elected as mayor of Calgary? Just last week Barbara G. Walker (check my blog) said plaintively that she thinks Islam will definitely take over the world and rule western civilization under Sharia Law. Barbara is about the smartest lady I know.

Canada as a country and vast track of land is like a slice of white bread that got thrown onto a garbage dump. Holy shit! Every Muslim family in Europe is producing 6.2 offspring while white countries are all under 2.0.

Scary stuff and there's not much we can do. The world reminds me of a Petri dish consumed by various colonies of bacteria. The colony (species) that reproduces fastest eventually takes over the whole living space before the agar runs out and it drowns in its own excrement, which is alcohol. But Muslims don't allow alcohol. Maybe that's why they want to take over the world. lol

Keep in touch,
Rich
At 7:02am on April 6, 2010, Richard GoscickiRichard Goscicki said…
I got a job with the Cencus for a couple of months.

I came on a little strong on my last blog post. I fact is, I'm really down on the fuckin' pope. I blame the bastard for helping rig the 2004 election to help install the incompetent, corporate stooge W. Bush.

If the pope stayed out of it, Kerry was way ahead. It would have been a different world now. W., with that stupid religious war impoverished the country. The evil he did will live on for decades.
At 10:25pm on April 1, 2010, Richard GoscickiRichard Goscicki said…
Good to hear from you, Mac. If you heard about my accident, I take back everything I said about Geico. So far they paid for everything, including chiropractic by this beautiful young lass whose husband is a tattoo artist. But she was great at 150 dollars a pop—all on Geico.

I'm finally getting a hip operation. My doc thinks that the operation was exacerbated by the accident. The SUV was insured for a quarter mil. That's big money here in Florida.

When I get the bread, maybe my kid and I can take a ride up to Canada. He really liked your rig and is thinking about being an over-the-road driver. He's 32 and has a no where job managing an auto parts warehouse.
At 1:30pm on March 16, 2010, DonDon said…
Hi Mac,
I listened and watched your video...good stuff! Next time you get stuck in Red Deer I will buy you a coffee....
Don
At 9:48am on December 23, 2009, The NerdThe Nerd said…
Hey, how are things for you? Celebrating any holidays? Today is Festivus - you could strike an aluminum pole and air your grievances. :)
 
 
 

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