If people are basing their decision, that Bill C-10 is a bad idea, on the consumption of media such as this video; I’m thinking its time to start looking for a nice place in the mountains to hide until the madness blows over.

I will edit the article to make that a little more clear.

I agree (people vs balance sheets), and this is the very foundation of my argument against this video. It is focused on the dollars when it should be focused on the effectiveness (or lack of effectiveness) of the bill in question. I agree that C10 is a bad idea, and will waste valuable mone… time, ingenuity, and labour on something that will have a negative impact and should be scrapped. I disagree about education and healthcare failing due to underfunding. While I am open to the possibility of them being underfunded, I don’t believe any amount of mone… time, ingenuity, or labour, will save them in their current layout…? configuration…? … the problems are systemic and fundamental. In the end *I* think the cost differential between students and inmates is completely immaterial, and that people discussing the issue should stay on topic. One might say: discuss the *issue*.

If you stick with the analogue thermostats you could just turn the blower off when you go to bed. Chances are you want the fire to burn very slowly anyway (to last all night), so blowing air into the combustion chamber is counter productive. Before this schedule, my bedtime routine was: lock the ferret cage, lock the door, and turn off the wood thermostat; effectively turning the blower off. If you have the analogue thermostat set just right, you could go to the blower itself, and push the on/off switch.

So three solutions:

1. Get a digital thermostat and set up a schedule similar to the one on the graph (not necessarily recommended)
2. Turn off the thermostat every night
3. Turn off the blower every night

Also, I figured that teaching my daughter about the safe handling and proper use of firearms was important. That way she won’t have the fear of them that others inherently have, and if ever in a situation where a firearm is present (whether legal or other) may have the wherewithal to stay calm and if necessary take control of the situation.

Glad to hear of another generation of sport shooters in the make.

I think we fundamentally disagree on people’s ability to resist temptation. I see dangerous items (cars, ktichen knives, rocks) that are not involved in an assault; attractive women that are not raped; and employees that are not stealing from the register.

I have intentionally steered clear of Firearms Legislation…. Way too politically charged an issue, and not really relevant to my point. Canada has legislation, what it doesn’t have is a friendly culture.

However, for the most part, I agree with what you have said. Guns are dangerous tools, and if used without proper care, or if used unethically, can cause a lot of damage (including death). The culture around guns does (in my mind) have a lot to do with their use as tools of crime; but the culture is linked to the fear of guns, and that is the exact cultural attitude that I so strongly would like to see change.

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While guns do not cause crime, guns do change the nature of the consequences of crime. For example, robberies committed with guns are less likely to lead to an injury (assuming you’re not an idiot and comply with the robber). But for a counter-example the difference between assault and manslaughter is often the speed at which the EMS responds (I believe the source of this idea and the evidence to support it are found in Daly and Wilson’s 1988 book “Homicide” but I don’t have book handy at the moment) — and guns greatly increase the likelihood of the more “serious” consequence by shortening the window EMS has to respond.

That being said, the availability of guns operating through cultural perceptions IS strongly linked to crime — hence the “out of proportion” numbers you see in the US. Given that much of the culture to which we in Canada are exposed is America, there are strong similarities in our cultural conceptions. There are strong arguments suggesting that the reason Canadian levels of gun-related violent acts do not come close to American levels is due to differences in gun legislation — legislation I strongly support.

You will never convince me that people should be able to go out and buy guns. The Crowley quote sounds good in principle, but I can imagine people resisting temptation – however as a criminologist, I am aware that given the tools and the opportunity, most people choose not to resist.

I don’t know how much wood a woodchuck can chuck, but we found out how much I can chuck. Sorry, we are still working on pictures.

http://mises.org/daily/4725

Good to hear you are going to have a go at hedge laying. A well laid hedge, like the photo in your post, is a pleasure to look at! I have had a go- & it takes time, but is worth the effort. Hawthorne hedges respond particularly well to laying – I am sure you could make them almost goat-proof!

Hopefully, we can arrange to run into you.

The Saturday one really is the hub of the community and people go as much to meet people as to buy (unfortunately for the traders). We were there this morning and caught up with some friends and made some arrangements to get together for food.

Live music and food too – it really is a nice event and you get to chat to the people selling and once you have lived here for a while you bump into people you know.

If you come up to Annapolis on a Saturday over the summer, let us know and we will meet for a coffee at the market.

We are going to look at properties on Sunday. I know that as soon as I have a place to call my own, Halifax will look a lot better.

We haven’t any pics of all of us as yet. We are trying to post the photos that we have taken but we are having troubles uploading them. We’re working on it

Love from Sue and Howard xxx

realize that my husband types really fast

I had to learn to type fast: have you seen how long I blather on for?