Natural Selection

I have heard that there are some young people (mostly young men) who are trying to eat those laundry detergent pods while photographing themselves doing so!  There are plenty of warnings printed on the box telling us these things are very dangerous and poisonous!  Yet these folks are still trying to eat them!  They can cause serious injury and even death if ingested!  Why?

My only explanation comes from a book written by Charles Darwin called the On the Origin of Species.  It's colloquially called "natural selection"!  Read the book.  I think it fits that criteria perfectly!

It's The Little Grinches Who Try To Get You!

As we pass the Twelve Days of Christmas and this season comes to an end, I would like to wish all of our friends and family a Merry Christmas and all the best in this New Year.  We had a wonderful Christmas season with our children and our grandchildren!  I hope your Christmas was a good one, too!

We had some little Grinches who tried to spoil it for us but they have failed!

1. To those Grinches who vandalized my car; you didn't spoil our Christmas!
2. To Mother Nature who decided to give us some very cold winter weather; you didn't spoil our Christmas!
3. To those who vandalized some of the Christmas decorations around the Village; you didn't spoil our Christmas!
3. To our beloved NDP government who added another nickel per litre onto the price of gas as a Christmas Present; you didn't spoil our Christmas!
4. To the "Genius" in America's White House and his "Little Rocket Man" in North Korea; despite all your blustering back and forth and your comparing the size of each other's button; you didn't spoil our Christmas!
5. To the entertainment world where we learned there are some men in that realm who are or have been behaving very badly; we support those women who had to put up with that crap! And men: you didn't spoil our Christmas!

The Christmas Spirit prevailed!  For a few days, a few hours or a few minutes, we enjoyed the company of our families and friends and we dreamed about what Peace might feel like!  The Grinches have failed once again!

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

The Good:  Our provincial government set up a plan to design a standard hospital building which could be built in locations around the province thus saving huge design and architectural fees.  A city (like Airdrie) would get a standard generic hospital building which then could be modified as to the needs of that city!  In Airdire's case; a large, that would be a well equipped obstetrics and maternity ward!  Hope for the Airdrie Hospital!
The Bad:  Our provincial government has now cancelled the above mentioned project and appears to be adrift regarding any organized provincial hospital program.
The Ugly:  We still have Airdrie patients being driven or flown into Calgary for treatment which could be provided by these now ghost hospitals.  More babies are going to born on the QEII as Airdrie's young population continues to grow!  Is there still plans to build a hospital on the edge of Calgary at the corner of Stoney Trail and Centre Street?  Who knows! And why there?

The saga continues!