Well Im back Blogging

Well Its been awhile since I wrote anything here. Well with Twitter and Facebook and such places like that, filling out a blog has been kinda sidetracked. But as winter is here and is going to get colder soon I think I may start blogging again and sharing some pics.

Speaking of that I got a scookum new camera for Christmas last year and took it to Seattle at the NHRA Northwest nationals and it did me well. Some of the pics are here on my Flicker page.

Although my theme of this blog is racing related as I am a racing fanatical fan I am also going to use it as a too lto share some pics with the world



  Also lately I have been getting into bird photography at our local Bird sanctuary. Everyday its a new adventure there and something new every time we go there, like now the Swans are migrating through here now. Also there is a ton of ducks a hanging around the river as well and I got some awesome shots of some of them today once the sun came out.

As we were walking out we were seeing some bark chips fall down from a  tree and some almost hit us in the  head, although it was tiny enough pieces it wouldn't have hurt us but it still gave us the instinct to look up and see what was going on. As it turns out a Donwny Woodpecker was pecking his heart out at this tree branch and wasn't ready to give up anytime soon, so that made for a good photo op as well.

Seattle NHRA O'reailly Northwest Nationals 2011

Yes we went to Seattle again to watch the NHRA Northwest Nationals.

In the News

Well reading the paper today I always have to laugh at the stupidly of the human race sometimes and politicians in general. Like take for example the Canadian political race, all started cause the other parties don't want to or never will agree with whoever is voted in as Prime Minister. What a waste why even vote for these guys. And like I said before they all look like criminals and act like them. Now interesting I say that as in the front page of the paper today one of the criminals is quoted as saying in the debate last night:

"I don't know why we need so many prisons when the crooks seem so happy in the Senate"...........Actual quote!

Now another thing that has me stirred up today is the fact that the nuclear crisis in Japan hasn't taught anyone anything. I mean nuclear energy was originally developed to kill people was it not (Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945). So whoever thought it was safe to use as a power source should be shot. Cause what do you do with spent fuel rods. Well some brainiac decided to store it in Big Lakes Northern Alberta. Albert doesn't have nuclear plants but we they have to store someone else's nuclear waste. Good one!. Now here is some quoted facts from the news today which most of us know already but here goes:

"Spent fuel bundles or rods become highly radioactive after they're used to produce electricity and remain a potential health risk for hundreds of thousands of years."

Hmmmm 100000 years good job!

"Canada produces 85000 used fuel bundles per year" Bundles not rods. How many rods in a bundle?
Well I feel sorry for people in a few hundred years who are going to have to live with this stuff.........

Japan Earthquake

Well like anyone else I feel sorry for the people of Japan to have to live through the disaster of the Earthquake there. I know the power of Earthquakes and and that they can strike anytime without warning.
So with Japan laying alongside a fault line and being exposed to earthquakes yearly with the possibly of a "Big one" why on earth would they build nuclear reactors there? It seem to me that there is no way they can keep any kind of structure immune to the destruction of a 9.0 earthquake. It just boggles the mind why they would even consider it and now with the meltdown underway , I hope it all works out but a meltdown can't be good.
Now as Alberta has talked about nuclear power and building a nuclear plant in Fort Macmurray, gee.....good job! Have they thought about how to cool the fuel rods when the Bow River dries up in ten years? No ocean to try to pump from. And still there is the problem of what to do with the nuclear waste and spent fuel rods. Some countries bury them in the ocean, I guess Alberta will just throw them away in the landfill like everything else........
C'mon people.enough is enough.........and what is the real reason behind nuclear reactors?
Weapons

10 years ago

All NASCAR fans know what happened 10 years ago today on Feb 18 2001. The day a legend passed away from a racing accident at Daytona Speedway. And the day Micheal Waltrip won his first Daytona 500. Well he won again tonight in the Camping World truck Series ironically 10 years to the day his friend and car owner died.

All NASCAR fans miss you Dale.

Congrats to Micheal Waltrip on winning the truck race in Daytona



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