Back blogging

Well I know it"s been awhile since I posted anything on here. I guess Facebook and Twitter and all those other media sharing places have taking over cause it's less work. BUtthere i9s still a place in the blogging world for me when I get time......

So here I am 2012, with a new camera and learning how to use it before the 2012 NHRA Northwest Nationals come around in August. The World of Wheels show was here yesterday in Calgary so I tried out some shots with my camera and also my new Fisheye lens. It can create some pretty cool and dramatic effects if you don't go too far into the distortion part of the lens. But even then it has it's place.

World of Wheels

Seattle NHRA O'reailly Northwest Nationals 2011

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

Somethingi made

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