sold some baseball cards

Unusual event over the weekend. I got an order on Sportlots for a baseball card sale. After a good start selling 1-2 orders a month for the first few months I hadn't had an order since March last year. I guess my area of interest is thinly traded. I thought maybe I was deleted or blacklisted somehow, although my feedback has been positive.

I sold a 1973 o pee chee Jerry Koosman for $0.75 to a guy in Ontario. I sent the payment into store credit. I hope to get back to cards later this year and start the big hockey program. So I expect to be doing some buying to finish off a set or two from the 1978-1983 era.

I have a bit of clean up to do as well move some unwanted cards like the 1996 score NFL complete set. I was able to move the 1991 upper deck high number NFL although I ended up giving it away on kijiji. Plus I've got some data now on which of my listed cards are moving. Some of them which came along later and I don't care about I may unlist and just toss to free up storage space for when hockey starts to get sorted.

Tunisian billionaire Belhassen Trabelsi in Canada

What to do about Belhassen Trabelsi. Let's look at it this way.

He has $1000 million.

He's in Quebec and wants to stay in Canada.

Quebec needs $400 million for a new arena.

There's no extradition to Tunisia anyway so perhaps for a strategic goodwill gesture to his new country such as building an arena for the community of Quebec to enjoy he would still have plenty to live well on and spend in Canada.

For all we know he made his money fighting Islamic extremism. Perhaps what happened in Tunisia can stay in Tunisia for all that the great majority of Canadians care. If he wants to be here, stay out of trouble and contribute to the community.

happpy power anniversary

Good news on my power bill. My rate got adjusted from $146 down to $79. Same thing happened at my last apartment it went from $50 to like $6 and settled in around $25. I expect it will settle around $100 a month here too. The adjustment didn't account for the winter months since I've only been here since August.

I must watch less tv or something since my rates tend to be lower than previous tenants, which is what the initial monthly power rate is based on. Still it's a nice surprise an extra $67 a month.

Margaret Trudeau

So Margaret Trudeau has a book out. First off any and all discussion of Margaret must begin with this.

Jean Chretien was a good prime minister.

His wife refrained from sleeping with Mick Jagger.

ok now that's out of the way. I didn't read her book and I'm not going to spend my time or a royalty for her on it. I did hear from this book that she says she's bipolar. Maybe it was already somewhat known. Anyway how apropos.

I remember it was less than a generation ago it was known as manic depressive. Back then it was a very serious condition requiring heavy medication and typically psychiatric hospitalization. And a stigma that would stay with you all your life. But alas today we have this new apparent "lite" version with the catchy name bipolar and unlike manic depressive no obvious symptoms; and lots of people apparently have it.

But to me what I see is just more excuses, a convenient new way for people to deny responsibility for their life decisions. Toss in this other new disease borderline personality disorder BPD and you're set. Make bad life decisions; act like an idiot 24/7 or whenever you choose to; and if anyone says anything just throw bipolar or BPD back in their face and wash your hands of the matter; then go back to continue what you were doing.

Maybe Margaret is bipolar. She's still responsible for what she did and she still owes Canada an apology for the way she acted.

Why does she go by the name Trudeau? She left him and went on to marry someone else after.

Pittsburgh Penguins

Is Gino Odjick in shape? Can Georges Laraque be available? How about Tie Domi.

The Penguins need to bring in someone to restore order out on the ice. The brazen running of Crosby, cheap shots behind the play, has gotten out of hand. This goes back at least to game #7 of the stanley cup finals rematch.

They should have brought in Jody Shelley or Todd Bertuzzi when they were available.

paying for the CRTC is money for nothing

Another disgraceful story. So now the CRTC has decided we can't listen to money for nothing any more. This was a global #1 hit in 1985, a vintage year. Now they are being revisionist and trying to rewrite history from a militant politically correct stance.

Screw you CRTC you bunch of little faggots. How dare you try to impose this new rule on the people of Canada today. This is a bold provocation.

Stephen Harper talked the talk with his Beatles mug and standing up on stage with his guitar. Now he has to walk the walk if he wants to win the next election. Stand up for rock n roll. Stand up for freedom. Stand up for Canada. Harper needs to personally intervene in this case and overturn the dire straits ban. For a bonus terminate the bureaucrats who created this distress on the people of Canada.


Looking at the bigger picture though is this any surprise. Starting with mandatory seat belts a generation ago there has been a remorseless expansion of the government into the affairs of free, private, law abiding citizens - see the new HRM public skating helmet rules below; and now this attack. The time has come to push back.