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Dear readers, your crowd funding efforts came up a little short so I鈥檓 still wearing my old parka and boots, but it鈥檚 OK, I鈥檒l 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 鈥渄o normal.鈥� We don鈥檛 require knee-jerk reactions. It鈥檚 not a new reality, it鈥檚 a return to the old reality we鈥檝e 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鈥檚 even more than what Oprah gets.
We don鈥檛 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鈥檙e not in on the insider game, your chances of gaining a bunch in today鈥檚 rapid-fire stock market are pretty well nil to nada.
I know, insider trading is illegal. So are PED鈥檚 in baseball. So what鈥檚 your point? Cheating is rampant. We just don鈥檛 call it that anymore. It鈥檚 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鈥檙e adding three MLAs to the package. Somewhere, somebody figured we needed more of these people. We鈥檒l 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.听听
And speaking of another unfair advantage, whatever became of the NFL鈥檚 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鈥檚 with smaller hands couldn鈥檛 grip the football very well. I don鈥檛 think that was the problem for Tom Brady, so I don鈥檛 know exactly what the advantage was. I鈥檓 just happy that it鈥檚 all over and like the ATM scam, nobody will be arrested.
Meanwhile, I haven鈥檛 heard of any pucks being deflated in the NHL. But then, who weighs those suckers before the game?
