Brad Wall needs to get on this immediately.

The NDP leadership race is on and Dwain Lingenfelter is by far the favourite to win the race right now.

His only competition is a family doctor named Ryan Meili, who (from his website) basically wants to raise royality rates on natural resources in order to pay for hippy-dippy power generation like solar and wind.

Oh yeah, he also wants to build bike paths. Presumably so that we need not drive to work and thus contribute to “global warming”.

Sigh.

Then there is Yens Pedersen.

He is the type of politician that wants everything that you want. Much like Jim Dinning in Alberta, he is taking the vague route.

Here are some ideas from his website.

We value healthy, nurturing and sustainable environments in which to live, work and flourish.

No shit. Really?

Government will invest in sectors that provide long-term stability and good jobs

Wow! Has that been tried before?

We value an economy that is dynamic, stable and equitable which provides a multitude of opportunities so that every citizen can experience security and fulfillment.

This guy is a genius!!! Sign me up!

Anyway, you get the idea.

Then there is Deb Higgins…

I won’t even bother getting into it.

Then there is Dwain.

Dwain was also the name of the inept police chief in Die Hard.

But I digress…

Dwain is dangerous because he has big money and name recognition. NDP’ers remember him fondly from the Romanow era, and he is generally seen as moderate.

Moderate being…not too NDP.

This is also his achilles heel.

Many of the NDP hardcores hate him. They see him as a sell out and an oil man.

The greatest hope is that there will be an anybody, but Dwain rally and the anti-Dwain’s will outnumber the rest.

This happened in Alberta with Jim Dinning. Jim was a corporate Calgary man that spent millions of dollars and years of his life campaigning to replace Ralph Klein.

He failed when the grassroots of the party refused let him walk to power. The votes split and Ed Stelmach won the race.

Brad Wall…do everything you can to stir up anti-Dwain sentiment. He is the only guy that can beat you.

Of course leftists are wringing their hands over this development…and that’s what it truly is…development.

Why?

Because people create development. That’s where civilization comes from…people.

Why do leftists hate this?

Because they love death and want us all to live like uncivilized cavemen in order to stop some harmless CO2 from entering the atmosphere.

(Okay, not all environmentalists are death lovers…but it is a path that people can easily begin to meander down, once they start to pervert their worldview)

7 billion people, however, is easily handed by the Earth’s resources. Don’t believe the nonsense about us needing 10 Earths if everyone lived like a Canadian.

As noted economist Julian Simon once noted, our greatest natural resource is people and a few more certainly won’t hurt.

Besides…if people continue not having kids at the current rate, then eventually there will be no one left on Earth to ‘harm’ it.

Population density per square kilometre.

Looks like lot’s of room to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Countries_by_population_density.svg

Here is the suspected advertisement that Ernest Shackleton put in the papers in 1914. He was trying to get to the South Pole.

“MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES, BITTER COLD, LONG
MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS, CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL.
HONOUR AND RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS.”

People actually responded to this!

That is old school rock and roll adventurism.

Today I imagine the response would be, “Do I get benefits? Or like…how long is my lunchbreak? I need a new i-phone, do you think they have service down there? How warm do I have to dress up?”

But I digress…

If you think back to 100 years ago, things seemed to be a lot more mysterious.

Men seemed to be more masculine.

The world seemed bigger.

The future seemed more fantastic.

Too often nowadays, people seem to approach life as though what we’ve got is what we need to have and tomorrow will be much the same as today, only imperceptably better, but hopefully not worse.

Our culture has hit a funk in a variety of different ways, but one of them that is incredibly important and can be rectified on an individual level is the reclaiming of an exploratory life!

Theodore Roosevelt called it, “The Strenous Life”. Check the link…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strenuous_Life

The general point is to live life larger and take more risks and make new discoveries and just generally ‘do stuff’.

Modern living too oftern consists of finding out how comfortable we can make the couch. This attitude is seen personally and nationally.

We can reclaim some of the spirit of days gone by. We can think bigger and live larger. Learn new things and take on new challenges.

Here is a pic of Admiral Robert Peary. The first white man to hit discover the North Pole.

It took him 20 years and it was brutal, but he did it and won worldwide acclaim for it.

http://www.old-picture.com/american-history-1900-1930s/Expedition-Admiral-Robert-Artic.htm