Alberta Grannies Have What It Takes!

This story is fantastic, I was raised to respect my elders and have noticed society has turned away from that adage, but here we have a group of intelligent seniors, who are willing to take a stand and show us the way! Good for them and great leadership for the rest of us!

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

Sorry I wanted to include a link to their website, the Raging Grannies, they have chapters all over Canada and the U.S. Started in B.C. Very inspirational women.<br />
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<a href="http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/grannies/">http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/grannies/</a><p>---<br>If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

To have respect,you must first earn it.Most elders are not respected because they don`t know anything.Want proof?
Look at the mess the world is in.It sure as hell wasn`t the current generation that created it.
Raging grannies are just that.Worry about the raging neocons.

I totally disagree, the mess was made a handful of people, no different than blaming all teenagers for a few bad apples. I commend the Raging Grannies for getting out and doing something. As for respect, since I don't know everyone, I respect first, assuming they have earned it, until they prove otherwise. Most elders I know personally, know plenty, if we would actually listen to them, we wouldn't have to keep experiencing history's mistakes.

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If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

So the grannies don't want Alberta to export oil? They would prefer massive unemployment and a standard of living that falls even further behind the rest of the world?

They should give their collective heads a shake.

If Canada is going to export oil it should do so with a nation that respects us. Dick Cheney is coming to Alberta to send a message to all Canadian, that oil in Canada belongs to the United States of America. I for one can't wait till the next election because I expect people like Jack Layton to make their platform about Canadian sovereignty and how we are simply becoming an american state.

Give YOUR head a shake. How hard do you think it would be to sell our oil to other countries? Those countries would treat us with respect and equal business partners, unlike the Americans.

right...as if we cant sell our own oil, we have to sell it to the americans, so they can sell it for us....people who think like that make me sick. How can you not see how utterly retarded it is.

This is part of an article on the C of C website, <br />
"If our NAFTA Partners Can Have National Energy Programs, Why Can't We?<br />
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If our NAFTA Partners Can Have National Energy Programs, Why Can't We?<br />
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One of the goals that President George W. Bush laid out in his State of the Union address was "to promote energy independence for our country."<br />
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Mexico, Canada's other North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) partner, also has a policy of oil energy independence and public ownership. Canadians seem blissfully unaware that, while our NAFTA partners are looking after their own energy security, Canada is the only NAFTA country prevented from doing so. The recently announced Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America may well tie Canada’s hands tighter."<br />
read the whole thing, it will make you sick, or make you think, depending on your perspective.<br />
<a href="http://www.canadians.org/display_document.htm?COC_token=23@@b09375e5be3f0c1f651c3d7166fe5023&id=1140&isdoc=1&catid=388">http://www.canadians.org/display_document.htm?COC_token=23@@b09375e5be3f0c1f651c3d7166fe5023&id=1140&isdoc=1&catid=388</a><p>---<br>If I stand for my country today...will my country be here to stand for me tomorrow?

<p>Spud,</p> <blockquote>Look at the mess the world is in. It sure as hell wasn’t the current generation that created it.</blockquote> <p><i>anyone</i> could have taken that position in their youth. (“Why didn’t our Elamite elders do something about that megalomaniac Sargon before the Akkadians overwhelmed us?”) What counts is whether each one of us will contribute to cleaning up the existing mess, so that today’s children won’t have to …</p><p>---<br>[The people] will forget themselves, but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights.

Don't we ever tire of rolling over for the master? This "sucking up" is totally demeaning and sickening.

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Vera Gottlieb

The Dick Cheney song:
How much is that doggie in the window? Ralph, Ralph. The one with the waggily tail? Ralph, Ralph. How much is that doggie in the window? Ralph, Ralph. I do know that doggie's for sale. Ralph, Ralph.

His Dickness needs to come and mark his territory you know.
I think it's clear that Ralph Klein for some years now has smelled of Dick piss but does the entire province want to? Are the grannies the only ones protesting? I think we need do an email campaign uninviting him just so he knows in advance that murderers and war criminals are not welcome here. Emails are about as severe as we can get considering the eau de chieny that reaks all around our parliament buildings.

BC is geographically and politically situated in one lousy spot. We also have a Premier that smells of Dick piss, we're next to Alberta and north and south of the USA. SOMEBODY HELP US WE'RE SURROUNDED!

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"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." Friedrich Nietzsche

Agree with you 4Canada.
Will dick piss get arrested by our police as a war criminal?
Nah.He will just piss on Ralph and Canada,and ol Ralph will just lick it up.

How quickly it devolves here. Hats off to the "grannies" for doing something. Don't know if it's the best way to get anything accomplished but if it makes folks feel better then so be it. There are other ways about it and more effective ones at that.