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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Well Look what I found (wife found) Racing history

Well it's amazing what you will find when you do some pre Xmas cleanup around the house. My wife asked me waht was in this envelope and I looked inside and said Wholy s---! (crap). These were pictures of a racecar that my dad built a roll cage in in our driveway. The guys that crewed on thie car worked with my dad and he was a welder so he was asked if he could build a roll cage. These pics brought back many memories as I remember the car in the driveway for weeks and my dad working on it after work and on weekends. I remember we were so excited to have a race car in the driveway for so many weeks!
It was sponsored by a local bar on the outskirts of Victoria, B.C. called the Six Mile, which was minutes from the local racetrack Western Speedway. My brother and I were so jealous that my Dad has his name on the car that we complained ours wasn't on there as we helped dad in the driveway on the car. So eventually on the taillights we each had our names painted on, one on each taillight. When dad finished the rollbar he took my brother and I for a spin around the neighborhood in it. Of course those were years ago and times have changed as we couldn't do that now with all the whiners in the world but it was cool at the time.

One day at work about 15 years ago when I lived in Victoria and was working at the same place as my dad and the guys that worked on this car, LArry came up to me and said I thought you might like these. It was these pics of this car which I was about 7 or 8 or 9 when it was being built and it was here from which I got my Racing bug and have been a racing fan ever since as we used to go to the track and watch it race every weekend.