- Thirteen-year-old kids playing in bars? Good grief. These kids should be doing homework instead. What is wrong with these parents?
I don’t need to see a 16-year-old drummer at the local tavern, and they sure aren’t going to learn anything they can’t access online. I think the age of majority is set too low anyway.
After hearing our Alberta finance minister praising highways, I was wondering why my new truck has more rattles and squeaks than a baby's crib -this after driving Highway 63 for only six months.
It is not at all helpful when the Canada Post employee clears the snow from the city sidewalk in front of our community mailboxes. The snow is pushed onto the road where people have to park when picking up their mail.
- How does Tom Gilbert keep getting credit from the media as a good defenceman? It makes no sense to me.
- The NHL has a real dilemma: Skill ? players like Sidney Crosby want to show how gritty and tough they are, but as soon as they get touched, the game is too violent.
This winter’s brutal weather should convince city council to exempt elderly and handicapped citizens from having to remove snow from city sidewalks. Instead of fining them, hire a few people to do it for them, enabling them to remain in their homes.
Is it possible that Harper, Stelmach and Mandel might be the three most boring politicians on the planet?
- Make any expansion of the Shaw Conference Centre conditional on first demolishing the last expansion's eyesore concrete wall that blocks the view of the river valley.
Trade Penner? He’s the Oilers’ best player! Please not! How about Gagner? Maybe San Jose would trade Couture, drafted after Gagner.
We can’t get speedy health care right here in Alberta. What makes you think the government should help you when you decide to travel abroad?
- I know there will be comments from the bleeding hearts saying police had no right to shoot the 17-year-old. Well, did the 17-year-old have the right to mug someone or have the right to come at the police officer with a bat and a knife?
Old people used to annoy me by saying “you’re next!” at weddings. They stopped when I started doing the same to them at funerals.
- The Edmonton fans have to be the worst in pro hockey. Who would want to play for a team when the fans get on you for every little thing. We don't give anyone a break. Smarten up!
- A 4.6-per-cent raise for Edmonton city council would be fine if there was at least a 4.6-per-cent increase in good decision-making.
Some silly councillors are saying they have to work such long hours. I don’t deny this, but if they paid attention before they ran for office they would have known what they were getting into.
- I notice that the comics are now often in the Sports section in The Journal. Does this have anything to do with the way the Oilers are playing? I still love them, though!
- I can never forgive Ed Stelmach for letting Ron Liepert loose on our health-care system. The damage that man did will last for a long time.
I would like to thank the city for the totally awesome skating rink I have at the end of my driveway this morning.
Toronto called in the military during a big snow crisis. Seems to me our men and women at CFB Edmonton would have accepted the call and could have provided valuable service towing ambulances and fire trucks on snow-clogged streets.
As an Oilers fan, I can take solace in the fact that the NBA playoffs aren’t very far away and in less than a month pitchers and catchers begin reporting for spring training.
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- -Why isn't Sayfildin Tahir-Sharif, the alleged terrorist, in the U.S. already? Deja vu, I know. It's our legal system. I wonder how long this one will carry on.
- If one person complaining can take any songs off the radio, I would like to register a complaint about Celine Dion, Michael Bolton, Journey and the Bee Gees.
- I joined the library so I could get books for my electronic reader. ... Could someone please explain why I have to reserve a virtual book?
A certain popular coffee chain should change its slogan from “Always Fresh” to “Always a Lineup.”
- - When will somebody invent an iPhone app that gets me a cold beer? Now that would sell some iPhones ... and some beer.
- A special thanks goes to the person who took the time to track down my husband from the inscription inside my wedding ring. I'd lost my ring while shopping and thought I'd never see it again. When my husband presented it to me, it truly made my Christmas.
- I get a kick from the atheist suggestion, "There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life." It seems to me "worrying" is what atheists are doing when they say "probably."
I predict that within two years, Miley Cyrus will either be caught up in a sex-tape scandal, or headed for rehab.
- I would like all the paramedics to know that if, for any reason, I am in the back of your ambulance, I'll pay the speeding tickets.
- Kudos go to Meyonohk Public School for their Christmas concert. All the references to Christ, Bethlehem, Santa Claus, Christmas trees and gifts were greatly appreciated. The kids had a ball and they did themselves proud.
- Digging out my front-lawn Christmas display from under a four-foot snowdrift brought on the sort of rush of excitement seasoned archeologists no doubt live for.
Vindication is probably a dish best served hot -but for David Schindler it's just as delicious cold.