Conservative Ottawa Convention...

[TOM4CWB]

Charlie,

I had a great time in OTTAWA.

Minister Ritz was a real gentleman. Secretary Anderson the same. Minister Menzies as well as Minister Uppal. MP Sorensen... is a prince. Thanks MP Leon Benoit... your 80 percent popular vote in Vegreville Wainwright ends the need for a CWB vote on the 'single desk'.

I absolutely LOVED the MP5 singing the national antherm to close the COnvention last night.

It was a totally devine and historic moment! We Canadians built a beautiful new convention centre in Ottawa... what a magnificent building.

They all 'humoured' me... took my CWB ribbing and frustration... with affection and in earnest understanding.

Chuck Stahl summed it up the best. God Bless Chuck. Chuck took WAY too much guff from the CWB.

Chuck rattled off 4 times that PM Harper had just specifically stated the CWB... in the same context as the end of the long gun registry... (meaning the end of the CWB 'single desk' monopoly) since a STRONG STABLE Majority Conservative Government has been installed and confirmed.

I in no uncertain terms expressed my concern that Oberg and his pirate grain bin buggers were trying to sabotage the CWB Corporation... that they must be told the best interests of the CWB Corporation is to transition to a voluntary marketing organisation...

That folks are tempted to end the CWB because these sabotaging CWB Pirate Directors bin bugs would like nothing better than to have us (yes us Conservatives) say... "the CWB shot themselves in the head"... so they killed themselves.

Yet we ALL know what these mean spirited arrogant grain growing bin bug infestation CWB Pirate ship building Directors want. EXACTLY those words... (THE CWB JUST KILLED ITSELF) so those grain infesting bin bugs (the 8 communist cwb Directors) can say the CWB Would, AND...

THIS cwb ACaDEMIC VEGETATION has planned to state and strongly emphasize...

As already stated so VERY MANY MANY TIMES already...

ThAT the CWB COULD never work as a voluntary farmer directed LEGITIMATE business (without the 'Single Desk' MONOPOLY).

THESE CWB PIRATE BIN BUG ship cAPTAINS;

AGAIN THESE GRAIN SUCKING PESTS WANT TO DESTROY AND SABOTAGE THE CWB CORPORATION... TO PROVE THEY ARE RIGHT.... RIGHT TO SAY THAT THE CWB CANNOT (AND NEVER COULD) SURVIVE WITHOUT THE 'SINGLE DESK' MONOPOLY.

[TOM4CWB]

THERE... I FEEL BETTER now!

[TOM4CWB]

well... not really... cause far too many youg farmers have had the 'single desk' reck their farms. Over and Over... I have been told and told... of how the CWB has destroyed young grain growers and their family farms.

Very sad. Awful. Terrible. I weep for them.

[wmoebis]

Thanks for the update. Glad you enjoyed it.

It does sound like it was such a GALA affair.

With much singing and dancing and dancing and prancing.
Whirling and twirling with heads just a swirling.
We can only invision the glasses of red wine and whispers devine.
Long swooping blue ribbons and little pink bows.
The boys giggling and snickering at the girls in their long flowing gowns.


PS: Don't miss Daines rodeo at Innisfail. With some of the best bucking stock in North America. Men from around the world will be competeing on some of the rankest horses and bulls. Enjoy the beer gardens and courting the ladies in their designer sunglasses and tight blue denim jeans.

[BTOfarmallll]

Tommie4 loves tight denim with them little hips in em', wait in line jeans, take a minute to get in em'!!!!!!

[sumdumguy]

Think the shredders are going full time in
winnipeg? I think a full audit of last 5 years
would be in order, just to keep the books straight.

[Burbert]

Good fer you tommie. A chance to suck up
to those in power, AGAIN! I'm sure that
if'n you filled the cracker in on the CWB
and your opinions of things. The CWB will
have nothin to worry about. Its continued
existence is assured.......

[tman]

WHAT!!

"far too many youg farmers have had the 'single desk' reck their farms. Over and Over... I have been told and told... of how the CWB has destroyed young grain growers and their family farms. "

I dream of the day when people would take responsibility for their actions and outcomes. From my extensive experience in agriculture across North America, I know that wheat is NOT the only crop that anyone's land can grow. If any young farmer, including myself, can NOT make a profit from growing wheat, or anything else, then they should change their management.

I guess a lot of cattle producers blamed BSE (or the packers or the US or aliens or ghosts) for their financial situation, then I guess it's just right for the grain growers to blame the CWB for their poor financial situations.

Oh, but what about the weather? Surely to goodness Mother Nature is to blame for so many people's dreadful situations. Or those communist Hutterites or the former communist USSR. Mmmhhh what other communist entities are there that we can lay blame to?

Whenever things have gone not well for me, whether it was when I almost totaled my dad's truck or when my business was, and now again, almost done, I think of the changes that need to be made or should have been made so the situation becomes better again and NOT blame anything or anyone.

If someone wants to have a choice to market their product, I respect that. But I do NOT have any respect for anyone who blames someone or something because they're not making money at something.

If someone can't make money growing wheat, or anything else in agriculture, then maybe those people shouldn't be farmers since they are NOT successful at managing their farms profitably.

This annoys me just as much as the hypocrisy of right wing capitalists who wants no socialist government involvement because "they're bad for business and US relations", but as soon as shit hits the fan, the governments aren't there fast enough to give them big enough handouts.

[TOM4CWB]

tman,

Do you grow Malt barley; Durum wheat; Hard white wheat; Soft white wheat; Extra Strong wheat; CPSWheat; Winter Wheat; Feed barley; Feed Wheat?

I have watched... every one of these crops... be strangled and under the mantle of the single desk monopoly.

While your concern is noted and shared on the issue of 'Hypocrisy'... where do you find the courage to exempt the CWB single desk monopoly from this problem?

Premium prices to growers? If the CWB actually delivered premium prices to the farm gate... there would be absolutely no need for the single desk!!! Or Part IV of the CWB Act... demanding the difference in the price inside and outside of Canada be turned over to the CWB by grain growers selling their own produce!!!

[tman]

I have never exempted the CWB single desk monopoly from anything. Where and how did you come to that conclusion? That was not my point that I apparently failed to get across. My point is there are some farmers, because I personally know them, who make money growing wheat and are forced to sell it through the CWB. But I also know farmers who don't make money under the current system. When/if the CWB no longer holds the monopoly, I'm sure there will still be farmers who wont' be able to make money growing wheat (or any of the other crops). I'm willing to put all my money on that.

As for your question; winter wheat, yes...feed barley, yes....feed wheat, unfortunately yes at times.

I have never said that the CWB is strangling or not strangling the crops under their control. What I am saying is that the only people who destroy farms financially are farmers themselves. The CWB isn't forcing anyone to grow any CWB controlled crop on their own land. Just like Monsanto isn't forcing any farmer to grow crops from Monsanto owned seed. There are other options.

[TOM4CWB]

Tman,

Why doesn't the CWB provide "Premium prices to growers? If the CWB actually delivered premium prices to the farm gate... there would be absolutely no need for the single desk!!! Or Part IV of the CWB Act... demanding the difference in the price inside and outside of Canada be turned over to the CWB by grain growers selling their own produce!!!"

You defence of the CWB is a valiant attempt to distract folks away from CWB deceptions and myths.

I do not buy it.

[tman]

(Where's the message icon for "shaking my head")

LOL, I was totally unaware that I was defending the CWB. This is the ugly of politics...how words get twisted and false statements are made. But hey, do what you want to do. People will see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe.

If someone states that they're farms are being destroyed by weather, Muslims, aliens, the Canadian Dairy Commission, the packers, over priced green equipment, or whatever else then I will state the exactly same thing...that the only thing that destroys farms, or any other business since farms are businesses, financially are farmers themselves.

Quit twisting what I say Tom.

[TOM4CWB]

Tman,

Your dance while adaptive... and alert... is NOT believable.

Why would the CWB need a legislative power to confiscate... if they paid premium prices?

John Deere needs no legislation... Monsanto and Microsoft the same.

If the CWB thinks farmers should sell them grain... perhhaps they should EARN the right... to buy that grain from growers John Deere does... Monsanto and Microsoft do earn the business we do with them.

NICE Diversion.. Tman... I do not buy it.

Cheers!

[tman]

You don't buy it?...good thing I wasn't trying to sell ya anything.

And dance...yes I do. Two step of course. But Tom, you're not my type.

I've found early on that girls really like it when you twirl them around with their feet off the ground. Fun times.

[TOM4CWB]

tman,

"If someone wants to have a choice to market their product, I respect that. But I do NOT have any respect for anyone who blames someone or something because they're not making money at something.

If someone can't make money growing wheat, or anything else in agriculture, then maybe those people shouldn't be farmers since they are NOT successful at managing their farms profitably.

This annoys me just as much as the hypocrisy of right wing capitalists who wants no socialist government involvement..."

So when the CWB shorts us $3.00/bu on our wheat... the marketing blunder is the fault of the grower?

Hmmmm... you are not defending the CWB record... and are blaming CWB blunders on grain growers who had no say in the sale???