[Canadian_Mind]

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

Regina Regina:

Well from what I hear from my brother and the other CP guys I know, the newest head of CP is a little Hitler.

Hitler
Regina used the word Hitler

The Count goes Berserk in front of his screen.
Ranting and raving and shouting the odds.
Regina sleeps with Baird!!!!
they use the word Hitler


roflamo!!!!

the count doesn't know or care of ReGina is a guy or female.
the Count is in excess mode.

words effect the Count , sometimes in a very bad way…


Regina used the word Hitler!!!!!

Are you high?

[Count_Lothian]

[saturn_656]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

{tries not to make eye contact}

{backs away slowly}

{sound of running feet}

*looks back at door*

Oh sure leave us to deal with it.

*sigh"

[DrCaleb]

You talking to me?

[Count_Lothian]

Canadian_Mind Canadian_Mind:

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

Regina Regina:

Well from what I hear from my brother and the other CP guys I know, the newest head of CP is a little Hitler.

Hitler
Regina used the word Hitler

The Count goes Berserk in front of his screen.
Ranting and raving and shouting the odds.
Regina sleeps with Baird!!!!
they use the word Hitler


roflamo!!!!

the count doesn't know or care of ReGina is a guy or female.
the Count is in excess mode.

words effect the Count , sometimes in a very bad way…


Regina used the word Hitler!!!!!

Are you high?

twas an inept try at making light at my jumping on Baird for using the Hitler comment.

Baird seems to have made up for it with his referendum comments yesterday.

in any case..it was just fun stuff and Robair and DrCaleb had me lolling ..so i put up the DeNiro youtube thing…

i was looking for that Goodfellas scene where one of them was waving his finger at a bunch of older people and going "You You!"

sort of Brooklyn thing.

egads i'm turning into that dreaded DrivelKing guy..


did i also tell you that besides dyslexia i have obsessive compulsive disorder.

i'm over my whole serial killer phase, so no worries there.

then there was this whole Anarchy thing that got out of hand.
Not to mention my penchant for the IRA due to some heritage and a love for Irish Pubs and real Guinness on tap not the swill Labbatt's brews here…

anyway you might have read where i set fire to myself in protest to women burning bras back in the seventies.

that actually was an accident gone awry and the press screwed that one up.

[ShepherdsDog]

[Count_Lothian]

It's nice to see how easy it is to weed out the New Reform Alliance nonConservatives with a few jokes.
dey gots one hellava chip on der shoulders

[Regina]

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

Regina Regina:

Well from what I hear from my brother and the other CP guys I know, the newest head of CP is a little Hitler.

Hitler
Regina used the word Hitler

The Count goes Berserk in front of his screen.
Ranting and raving and shouting the odds.
Regina sleeps with Baird!!!!
they use the word Hitler


roflamo!!!!

the count doesn't know or care of ReGina is a guy or female.
the Count is in excess mode.

words effect the Count , sometimes in a very bad way…


Regina used the word Hitler!!!!!

[Regina]

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

It's nice to see how easy it is to weed out the New Reform Alliance nonConservatives with a few jokes.
dey gots one hellava chip on der shoulders

Yeah..............was totally lost on me. You'd have done better if you yelled Squirrel.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

andyt andyt:

The railroads were not moving more, because they had to run shorter trains because of the severe cold.

The wheat board would have locked up the required cars, many of which have been diverted to moving oil. It would have seen that that there's a bumper crop and made sure the cars were there - now there's nobody to co-ordinate that. It's a wild west show now. And the wheatboard had pull with the govt to order the rail monoply (effectively) to divert more cars to shipping grain.

It has absolutely nothing to do with trains moving oil - that is less than 5% of the cars moving freight these days. Even if it was a factor, the cars that carry oil most certainly do NOT carry wheat, so it wouldn't impact that one iota.

The wheat board had the ability to schedule grain shipments. CN and CP cut their work forces, and with the cold weather they have to run shorter trains. If there were more crews to run more locomotives, the grain would be shipped - just like every other year! A train pulling oil (record shipments by rail) cannot pull grain, so yes - a train moving oil cannot move wheat.

Because CN and CP aren't moving grain, we are losing long term customers of our grains, and some mills in the US are down to a few days worth of things like oats and wheat. And they are looking at Russia as a supplier, because we can't do it!

Loss of the Wheat board means there are no cars coming to empty the elevators, and farmers only got partly paid when they delivered to the elevator. So farmers have grain in their silos, and now they would normally be relying on that initial payment to fund seed and fuel for the spring crops. Money that isn't coming.

Canada's Economic Action Plan!®

I wasn't commenting on the wheat board's ability to ship grain, I was commenting on Andy's idea that oil shipments were the main cause of shipment delays.

I'd agree that the CWB had the muscle to get it moving because it had controlled so much business. Now, farmers simply don't have the market clout to get the same results.

[DrCaleb]

bootlegga bootlegga:

I wasn't commenting on the wheat board's ability to ship grain, I was commenting on Andy's idea that oil shipments were the main cause of shipment delays.

I'd agree that the CWB had the muscle to get it moving because it had controlled so much business. Now, farmers simply don't have the market clout to get the same results.

Right. I was supporting andy. As in my response to Regina, if there are limited sized to the trains then the railroad will get the most profitable cargo moving. If oil brings them more revenue than grain in someone elses' silo does, then the oil gets shipped.

[bootlegga]

DrCaleb DrCaleb:

bootlegga bootlegga:

I wasn't commenting on the wheat board's ability to ship grain, I was commenting on Andy's idea that oil shipments were the main cause of shipment delays.

I'd agree that the CWB had the muscle to get it moving because it had controlled so much business. Now, farmers simply don't have the market clout to get the same results.

Right. I was supporting andy. As in my response to Regina, if there are limited sized to the trains then the railroad will get the most profitable cargo moving. If oil brings them more revenue than grain in someone elses' silo does, then the oil gets shipped.

That is true, but I doubt it is the case.

From the numbers I've heard recently, oil shipments are only about 5-10% of total rail shipments in the past year, i.e. if a train rolls by with 100 cars, 5 to 10 are carrying oil. I've looked for confirmation online of those numbers but haven't found it yet, but given the source, I tend to believe it.

Further, most oil being shipped is not oil from the oilsands, but rather from Bakken, so it's another nail in that coffin IMO;

$1:

Of the million barrels now being shipped by rail in North America, only a small fraction — around 50,000 barrels — consists of the “heavy crude” that is produced in the tar sands; the rest is “light crude” from southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the U.S.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/shipping-c ... rs/5360776

As such, I'm skeptical that oil shipments are the main reason grain shipments have been delayed. It's certainly possible that it is partly responsible, but entirely...I don't think so.

[Jabberwalker]

Count_Lothian Count_Lothian:

It's nice to see how easy it is to weed out the New Reform Alliance nonConservatives with a few jokes.
dey gots one hellava chip on der shoulders

Republican? Did you call me a Republican? (reaches under the front seat for the loaded .44)

[Xort]

andyt andyt:

The railroads were not moving more, because they had to run shorter trains because of the severe cold.

"A spokesman for Canadian Pacific Railway said grain is the company's single largest commodity and that it has shipped 17 per cent more grain than average last fall."

Keep lying, someday someone will believe you.

andyt andyt:

As you say, the wheatboard would have forseen the bumber crop and taken steps then to ensure movement of it. The cold weather could not have been forseen, so there still might have been some snags, but less than this.

What steps? What would they being doing? The RR have already moved more than last year, and last year was another record year.

[andyt]

And yet the govt has finally acted and will fine the railroads 100k a day if they don't move more grain. More lies, right? And are you doubting the railways had to run shorter trains and had more breakdowns because of the cold? That's been the very reason given by the railways.

Lying - fuck off.