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The Flea Trap / Re: our new carbon tax will have a negative impact on school boards
April 30, 2016, 06:10:31 AM #4262
The Flea Trap / Re: our new carbon tax will have a negative impact on school boards
April 30, 2016, 05:58:53 AMI don't like carbon taxes either, but it is better than cap and trade.Quote from: "iron horse jockey"
It is such a bad time right now in Alberta to be taking more money away from the people.
During an economic downturn, its not a good time to tax people or companies, if the goal is to get Alberta moving again. NDP is making all the wrong choices at the wrong time. Notley will like go down in history as the 'Bob Rae of Alberta'. 1 term premier who leaves behind a huge fiscal mess.
Notley should take a page from Obama's playbook. Don't raise taxes at least until the economy has turned a corner.
Trouble is NDP are what Canadian PM Louis St. Laurent called 'Liberals in a hurry.' They don't take their time, they don't pace themselves. They want too much at once without a credible plan to make it work.
Socialism needs to find a way to make it pay for itself.
#4263
The Flea Trap / Re: Comic Con
April 19, 2016, 04:08:40 PMHe could have at least given you the comics! I knew a neighbor when I was growing up who would make her son burn his comic books. I felt so bad for himQuote from: "Annie"ac_crying And they weren't religious at all.
My dad would have cried if someone burnt one of his Playboys.
Maybe I snagged some of them at this garage sale.
Some women was selling of her husband's old Playboy Magazines for about $5 each. So I bought a bunch.
The ones from around 1960 to 1975 were their best issues, still worth reading, masterpieces in graphic design.
The ones from the 1950s are more valuable, but their content is somewhat stale.
The fifties were defintely a different era which reflected a different mindset which got swept away in the sixties.
#4264
The Flea Trap / Re: Comic Con
April 18, 2016, 01:24:36 AMHe could have at least given you the comics! I knew a neighbor when I was growing up who would make her son burn his comic books. I felt so bad for himQuote from: "Annie"ac_crying And they weren't religious at all.
There was a time several decades ago when America went on this comic book burning craze. Some 'expert' convinced much of the United States that comic books were inherently evil, so thousands perhaps millions were trashed and then thrown into the bonfire:
Subsequently, this decreased the existing supply of what would become future antiques. So today, quite a number of these issues are extremely scarce where just a handful, perhaps just a half a dozen of some titles exist today. This has conferred the rarity status and hence increased their desireability and value.
#4265
The Guest Nest / What did the Fall of Hitler & the End of WWII represent?
April 16, 2016, 01:07:52 PMI kinda see the end of WWII as also the true closing of the 19th Century and the TRUE beginning of the 20th - which in many respects, we are still living the latter half of.
'Seems WWII was a culmination of at least a century full of grudges in Europe, driven by centuries old values of upholding national and military honor. It would also be the last time in which the major European powers would clash on the battlefield. But the destruction of 'Old Europe', brought with it the rise of truly 20th century values which seem to have to fruition in the 1960s. ie - pop culture, racial integration and multiculturalism. Whether the world is any better off for them is a matter of debate. Certainly, there is a fair share of holdouts who think otherwise, resist and seem to long for the old order in which the Colonial Powers ruled.
Anyways, here's an episode from World at War which is worth watching - because it describes how the world changed dramatically and a New political and cultural order emerged practically overnight:
#4266
The Flea Trap / Re: Comic Con
April 15, 2016, 06:53:16 PMWhen my older brother found God he burnt everything!!! , Records , Comics..... EVERYTHING!Quote from: "keeper"
...too bad.
Just out of idle curiousity, was it because of a girl/woman he knew in his Church?
And he wanted to please her by destroying everything he thought might turn her off?
#4267
The Flea Trap / Re: Comic Con
April 15, 2016, 04:27:11 PMI've always wanted to go to one of these Comic cons closer to home. I used to be an avid collector, but lost interest in the early 80s ended up selling my collection at a big loss, then I started collecting again when I saw what Jim Lee was doing with the X-men. They soon when to crap after the formation of Image and I stopped buying new books again, but I held onto what I was able to find this time around... about 500 books, mostly Marvel... nothing really worth more than Amazing Spider-man #300. The oldest would a fair copy of Uncanny X-men #94.Quote from: "shin"
I often criticize the current state of the comic book industry online. They use retconning and alternate universe ideas way too often to work their ways out of unsolvable plots.
Yeah, many of the newer comic books have too much going on, too many characters, too many villains, too many sub-plots, too many 'behind-the-scenes' mind games to the point that it becomes a mish-mash and the whole thang becomes incoherent.
One of my favorite issues of all time, regardless of genre, brand or label, was Avengers #2 (1963):
It's about a phantom-like creature who comes from outer space, lands on earth, and scares the heebie-jeebies out of the earthling population by assuming their physical identities. It doesn't matter that the characters are dressed in superhero costumes. The plot is very similar to today's movies or recent TV episodes. A villain has the ability to transform itself into a human likeness such as in
...so in this regard, the writers of the Avengers #2 story were quite advanced, and their ideas foreshadowed stories which would later appear to have borrowed (stole?) from them.
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