Hiya.... Well, I did it again. Just am inclined every six months or so to stir up the pot with this old and dying site, to see if folkes are still up to debating, jousting, and sharing things Orcadian. So how are ya Peg? We sure get a lot of news every day from and about Obama. I wonder if he gets enough sleep. After the bloodbath with Hillary, and the final election, he is now in a fight which involves American jobs and the virtual future of so many people. What a mess to sort out, with the AIG and Enron mentality dominating the larger companies still. We in Canada think that if GM goes broke, that in fact, Chrysler and Ford will thrive and survive. It is sort of like a stock-market driven scale down in vehicle production, necessary only because so many cars are imported from Japan, Korea, and Europe. But certainly the automobile has been the centerpiece of the post war economy. Ae you going back to Orkney this sumer? that house at Odin that Tuck talks about, can't be more than a few hundred yards from where we had the wee visit at the Stones Hotel. Yeah, well we up here have two provinces maintaining the Bell houses, the original farm near Brampton, and the one in Nova Scotia. he became an American citizen after he did his phone thing, but as he conjured the thing up here, lived here at both ends of his life, and chose to die here, he is considered to be one of us. His name is always on the list of Canuk achievements, but with a wee sidenote to acknowledge his teaching in the US and his ultimate citizenship there. Hope you and yhour cat are well, as well as Beltbuckle Tom and your kiddies. Cheers....Kol (Stephen) On Mar 29, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Margaret Bainton wrote: > I thought AGB's home was in Nova Scotia. (Yes, I know NS is in > Canada. ) Stephen, you're saying that Brantford or Baddeck is in > Ontario. > Peggy > Teacher of the Deaf and member of the AGB Association for the Deaf > and Hard of Hearing > > > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hummm...interesting stuff Steve...but we are straying well off topic here. It's a bit of a streatch to tie USA politics and Canadian achevements to things Orkney...give you credit for trying...but the thread is ever so thin. How abouts we try to stay a tad closer to the main topic... R the Cruel > From: stephen.davie@sympatico.ca > Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 16:02:45 -0400 > To: orcadia@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ORCADIA] AGBell > > Hiya.... > > Well, I did it again. Just am inclined every six months or so to stir > up the pot with this old and dying site, to see if folkes are still > up to debating, jousting, and sharing things Orcadian. > > So how are ya Peg? We sure get a lot of news every day from and about > Obama. I wonder if he gets enough sleep. After the bloodbath with > Hillary, and the final election, he is now in a fight which involves > American jobs and the virtual future of so many people. What a mess > to sort out, with the AIG and Enron mentality dominating the larger > companies still. We in Canada think that if GM goes broke, that in > fact, Chrysler and Ford will thrive and survive. It is sort of like a > stock-market driven scale down in vehicle production, necessary only > because so many cars are imported from Japan, Korea, and Europe. But > certainly the automobile has been the centerpiece of the post war > economy. > > Ae you going back to Orkney this sumer? that house at Odin that Tuck > talks about, can't be more than a few hundred yards from where we > had the wee visit at the Stones Hotel. > > Yeah, well we up here have two provinces maintaining the Bell houses, > the original farm near Brampton, and the one in Nova Scotia. he > became an American citizen after he did his phone thing, but as he > conjured the thing up here, lived here at both ends of his life, and > chose to die here, he is considered to be one of us. His name is > always on the list of Canuk achievements, but with a wee sidenote to > acknowledge his teaching in the US and his ultimate citizenship there. > > Hope you and yhour cat are well, as well as Beltbuckle Tom and your > kiddies. > > Cheers....Kol (Stephen) > On Mar 29, 2009, at 12:34 PM, Margaret Bainton wrote: > > > I thought AGB's home was in Nova Scotia. (Yes, I know NS is in > > Canada. ) Stephen, you're saying that Brantford or Baddeck is in > > Ontario. > > Peggy > > Teacher of the Deaf and member of the AGB Association for the Deaf > > and Hard of Hearing > > > > > > > > _______________________________________ > > Orcadia Group Photo Album > > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA- > > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > _______________________________________ > Orcadia Group Photo Album > http://tinyurl.com/28bx9x > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ORCADIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Royce Perry wrote: > Hummm...interesting stuff Steve...but we are straying well off topic here. It's a bit of a streatch to tie USA politics and Canadian achevements to things Orkney...give you credit for trying...but the thread is ever so thin. How abouts we try to stay a tad closer to the main topic... > > R the Cruel Indeed. How about the John Rae. Our MP, Alistair Carmichael, is seeking a meeting with the Dean of Westminster Abbey, the Reverend Dr John Hall to discuss the historical inaccuracies on the memorial to Sir John Franklin within Westminster Abbey. It was Rae and not Franklin who discovered the NW passage! -- Bruce Fletcher Stronsay, Orkney UK <http://claremont.islandblogging.co.uk> "I'm a cat person, myself," she said, vaguely. A low-level voice said "Really? Wash in your own spit, do you?"