Kelowna Radio - Tune OUT!

I should just start a blog.."you know what really grinds my gears" lol 

Worst radio EVER here! You got The Juice that plays 80's/90's rock that never had a home, mixed with pop hits and the odd good 90's tune (and nickelback.."shudder"); Power 104...again with the 70's-90's rock that no one has ever heard of except for the dorks that work at the radio station..and 1 out of 100, a good rock song (not including nickelback, which they play); 99.9 sunfm with A.D.D. insipired pop and hip-hop melting into one long song that makes you wish for death (oh and don't forget their abosultely terrible 90's lunch), then Q 103.1 that is trying to be like Sunfm (but actually does it a little better) but then they throw in some crap that never made it to the top 50 in 1994 and it just sours you for days... and then country...good ol' 107.7 the giant. Radio announcers that work there are quite irritating but at least they are true to the genre! and no Nickelback!!..I think I'll just tune into am 1150 and cut my losses.

Missing the Mark on the "Occupy" Movement

I have read so many posts about the protesting and "Occupy" movement that I just had to throw my 2 cents in.

• Occupy Wallstreet (and Vancouver and Toronto, etc., etc.) started in one place: wanting more jobs, and better jobs, more equality, a more equal and transparent distribution of wealth, end to corruption and limiting the influence corporations have on the government. These things are real, and it is plainly obvious to me that they are huge issues our generation is facing. Real hardworking Canadians and Americans started this movement. Don't fool yourself into thinking that a bunch of uneducated hippies and homeless people found a free computer at the public library and started the movement....
• But it continues into another place: Young free-living pot smokers (and yes, some homeless people) have jumped into the "occupy" camps. Hipsters, and street musicians, free-lovin people that have had life beat them down..AND, yes, rich kids with iPhones, hypocrites even some would say... rebels without a cause joing a huge movement...that is quickly losing focus..because there are so many issues at hand here. BUT don't let that discourage you from the movement itself because it is IMPORTANT.
• I'll weigh-in on one major mis-conception (in my mind).... Yes oil and gas made pretty much all the crap that you use every day. Fuel is just one part of it...plastics, vinyl, rubber, manufacturing, computers, etc. etc. all stem from petrochemicals. But wait a minute...why are they are so cheap?! WHy are they EVERYwhere? And why are even the people protesting massive corporations (like the oil and gas sector) using items directly produced from petro-chemicals? Because oil and gas are great! They are versatile, are a reservoir of energy in a state easily accesible to exploit, and give us the best bang for our buck as far as effort and return (on energy)... or they USED to be. But the industry is subsidized by government!; or to not go out on a limb, "this is my understanding"...but ya...no...they are. Oil and gas industry (backed by our government) has every intention of holding the monopoly on fuel and consumer goods until every last drop is gone...even if the costs ($, fuel, environment) to produce the stuff, outweighs that which you (the 99% of you!) get out of it. 
• Sooooo what choice does your 99% of the population have but to use the daily items produced by the petrochemical industry (I haven't seen a cheap permanent marker made of hemp from wind energy...have you???) Not because the technology doesn't exist, because it does, but because we have no intention of diversifying and taking some of the money from oil and gas and investing it elsewhere. Not yet anyways. Its not about doing away with oil and gas (or pharmaceuticals or fast food), or disregarding the hard working people that work in that industry, its about wanting more jobs, and better jobs, more equality, a more equal and transparent distribution of wealth, end to corruption and limiting the influence corporations have on the government (see paragraph 1).