Dear readers, your crowd funding efforts came up a little short so I’m still wearing my old parka and boots, but it’s OK, I’ll use the quarters and one loonie wisely on a small sundae next door once the weather turns warm.
So how much should we worry now that the goose in the oil patch is laying regular eggs instead of the golden double yokers? I figure the brain trusts in Regina can figure out a way to once again “do normal.” We don’t require knee-jerk reactions. It’s not a new reality, it’s a return to the old reality we’ve waded through at least five times before.
More thoughts.
If you are 38 and still playing Grand Theft Auto, should you be concerned? Should we be concerned? What is your role in the global economy?
Another topic.
Did you realize one of our Canadian banks is now clearing $27 million per day? That’s even more than what Oprah gets.
We don’t have to concern ourselves with that hacking scam that cleared over $100 million from about 100 bank ATM machines a couple of weeks ago. I figured it was just a matter of time before they got to this little gambit. It seems the hackers had their shyster pals go to the various ATMs and on a cue, would have the machines spit out all the twenties in their inventory to be picked up by their partners who would then casually leave the scene, unrecognized by surveillance cameras.
What is learned from this latest intrusion of banking firewalls?
Expect your phony bank fees to go up a few bucks in a month or two. No arrests will be made.
Speaking of unfair economic advantages, a recent report out of the U.S. indicates that those who enjoy insider stock trading advantages gain 34 per cent more than the average stock-purchasing sucker within a two-month period after acting on their illegal tips.
If you’re not in on the insider game, your chances of gaining a bunch in today’s rapid-fire stock market are pretty well nil to nada.
I know, insider trading is illegal. So are PED’s in baseball. So what’s your point? Cheating is rampant. We just don’t call it that anymore. It’s now just an advantage.
Speaking of cash, our MLAs are having to accept a wage freeze to save money, but at the same time, we’re adding three MLAs to the package. Somewhere, somebody figured we needed more of these people. We’ll have 61 of them running around loose in the legislative building come next election. Can we afford them? Who told Brad he could do that?
I still figure this province could be run efficiently with a 13-member council and we could save hundreds of millions of dollars that we could then turn over to Lean managers who would tell us we could do it more efficiently with 61.
And speaking of another unfair advantage, whatever became of the NFL’s infamous deflategate? The Patriots somehow got a playoff advantage for one game because somebody deflated their game footballs by a couple of pounds.
What the heck, we did that back in high school when our QB’s with smaller hands couldn’t grip the football very well. I don’t think that was the problem for Tom Brady, so I don’t know exactly what the advantage was. I’m just happy that it’s all over and like the ATM scam, nobody will be arrested.
Meanwhile, I haven’t heard of any pucks being deflated in the NHL. But then, who weighs those suckers before the game?
