BEAR EFFICIENCY

These pictures are said to have been taken by a guy from Grande Cache, Alberta, 1.5 hours south of Grande Prairie, by the Bareland River on Highway 40.

Take a look at the time frame in the bottom right-hand corner of each picture ... notice the time stamp.

It took him just ten minutes to pick her up, take her to dinner, feed her a terrific meal and then get laid. 

Is this guy good or what? 

PEMEX overweight

Imagine a chubby guy in love with hot dogs, hamburgers and pizzas that is fed up with his rashers and determined, he shares his personal diet to lose a few pounds.

Starting today, I’ll drink diet coke only, I’ll sleep eight hours, I'll be 4 hours a day in front of the TV only and I’ll think about only in healthy things.

As the kid in the TV adds, you sure would ask the chubby guy, hey and the hotdogs, the hamburgers and the pizzas, dad?

I thought that when listening on the radio to new named Pemex director Jose Antonio Gonzalez, talking about the savings plan of the under a lot of problems oil company:

"What we are talking about, is not setting staff itself. Certainly it will be part of the process. I do not discard it, but we have not defined it yet, either in what place or in what amount. But we will always work hand to hand with the union and respecting the worker’s rights."

No, wow, I just have only one question, Mr. González: and the hotdogs, the hamburgers and the pizzas, dad?

If the obese Pemex want to lose weight there’s no turning back, you have to cut staff and benefits.

Regarding the overstaffing, Sergio Sarmiento has recently made an excellent comparison between Pemex and Statoil. While the Norwegian company has a sixth part of Pemex workers, in 2014 it sold only 26% less than the Mexican fatty.

Another example: Chevron. The American giant produced a daily average of 3 million barrels in 2014, 25% more than Pemex; and what about its employees? At the end of 2014 Chevron had less than half of our fatty did (47%, in fact).

Due to the oil crisis during 2015 Chevron’s revenue plummeted 35%, and of course, it already has cut 12% of its workforce (7,500 workers). Now it employs only 42% of the employees Pemex has.

Let me tell you this, between January and September 2015, the accumulated income of Pemex has fallen almost 38% compared to 2014 (in dollars) and although it has announced that the goal is to cut just over 10,000 workers, many of these “savings” are only in retirements.

Here comes another big problem of our Mexican fatty: the union benefits of Pemex. I’ll just highlight some beauties. It’s crazy:

a) Vacation Days: From day one and up to 10 years, 21 paid days. After 10 years, 30 days, and of course, I have to mention the vacation bonus: 186%, you and I receive 25%.

b) Yearly bonus: 60 days. For you and me: only 15.

c) Settlement: 5 months 40 days per year worked.

d) Waiver: If the employee has worked for more than 15 years, 40 days per year worked! Really? I cannot believe it...

e) Retirements:

· 25 years or 55 years of age: 80% of salary.

· 30 years or 60 years of ag: 90% of salary.

· 35 years without age limit: 100% of salary.

· All retirees receive medical care, inflation adjustments and yearly bonus of 60 days.

· After dying there are four types of postmortem pensions: starting from 3 years with 100% of salary retirement to lifetime. In addition, 15 years of medical care for dependents.

f) Up to two loans. The first at an annual rate of 1% and of 5% second. Oh and a single aid for remodeling and other items up to $ 125.513.40.

And I am leaving the most incredible fact for last. Each worker is entitled, on average, to receive the equivalent of $300.00 pesos per day of gasoline if they show a commercial invoice of a vehicle. If this provision were to apply to the 135,000 workers of Pemex, the spending would be $40.5 million pesos every day, $14.782 million pesos per year!

Oh, they also receive a daily average of $70.00 pesos as a small help for gas, about $9.5 million pesos per day, or $3.450 million pesos per year!

These are the rashers of Pemex: an excess of workers and their irrational benefits. No private company would survive this way.

Pemex has done it due to the economic boom of oil prices that we have had for decades. The consequence of its fatness was noted in its inefficiency and ineffectiveness to explore and thus sustain or grow its production volume, as all the other oil companies in the world do.

But there is no doubt that, in the lean times you and I we'll have to maintain PEMEX. That is why the Government is already creating its "Fobaproa" (Banking Fund for the Protection of Savings) for Pemex in order to rescue its pension crisis. And who will pay the bill?

José Antonio González is preceded by a reputation for being rational and efficient. We better. There is no other way: In order for Pemex to lose weight it has to leave the hotdogs, the hamburgers and the pizzas. PEMEX must cut its workforce in a minimum of 50 % and it has to use large scissors to cut down its benefits, or not?

In a few words...

"My doctor told me, stop having intimate dinners for four if you are to eat dinner by yourself."

Orson Welles

The Origin of Thanksgiving's Turkey Dinner

Even though this tradition is merely from the Unites States, its gastronomic origin goes way back to the ancient Aztec Culture.

Although this animal is from the American Continent, it was re-introduced into the United States through England.

The most representative dish of the Thanksgiving dinner in the United States, without a doubt is the turkey; however, this food is original from Mexico, where, in Pre-Hispanic times, it was consumed by the Aztecs.

Even though it is a completely American tradition, the reason for eating turkey during Thanksgiving has its origins in the trading originated after the discovery of America.

It is well know that several foods “invaded” the world after Christopher Columbus arrived to the “New World”, among them, corn, tobacco, chocolate and of course turkeys; in Mexico they are also known as “Guajolotes” (waholotes could be its closest pronunciation in English).

But how did this bird became the central dish for the Americans in one of the most important celebrations?

According to an article published in The Collegian, a publication belonging to California State University, Campus Fresno, the Pre-Hispanic bird, called “hueholoti” (pronounced in English weholoti), was transported from Mexico to Spain in order to motivate its commercialization in Europe.

Then it arrived to what was the Ottoman Empire, nowadays a great part of what we know as Turkey, where the animal became chubbier and meatier, thanks to their farming practices the people from that region had developed.

Later, in 1540 the “Turkish turkey” arrived to Western Europe and to England and around 70 years after that, it was brought to America again, says the article which had the collaboration of the Historian Brad Jones.

It was precisely in 1614 when the bird arrived to Jamestown, Virginia and where the first group of Englishmen settled in the US in 1607.

A Century Old Tradition.

The first Thanksgiving dinner in the United States was held in 1621, when the Pilgrims, British Citizens, held a celebration with the Wampanoag Tribe Indians, in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

When a fighter trains to face the best and the best trains for another fight...

There’s a difference, of course, with this latest redirect in fighting history. 

The thing about Georges St-Pierre’s loss to Matt Serra back in the day was that he didn’t appear on Good Morning America to announce the fight to begin with. Nor was he the first male to hold a UFC title, nor the catalyst for the very existence of the 170-pound division. It wasn’t him who gave Serra the platform. He wasn’t undefeated, nor considered by the wider world at large as novelistic and invincible. He didn’t have Beyoncé quoting his inspirational utterances during concerts, or host SportsCenter. There was no Jimmy Kimmel, or WWE cameos, or New York Times best-selling books. His words didn’t send a ripple effect through pop culture. He didn’t alter thinking on body image and sexuality, nor did he crash through gender barriers. He wasn’t a pioneer or a savior of the sport. People (outside of Canada) didn’t cry in hysteria when he entered a room. 

No, when Matt Serra caught him, it just went to show that anything is possible in a fight. 

When Ronda Rousey got knocked out by Holly Holm on Saturday night in Melbourne, it was possibility itself that took the blow. This was the brightest star in the game being dimmed before our very eyes. It was profoundly different. All the falsehoods of immortality came crashing back down not just on Rousey as she fell to the canvas, but on the mesmerized public. The collective shock was not just in the historical aspect of what was playing out, but in the sheer gullibility of having let ourselves get so carried away. Greatness will never stand for long in perfect conditions. We know this. Yet it was fun to ignore!

And of course, sports are at their best when they reach such levels. When the narratives bend reality, and people share in an illusion for as long as it lasts.

Everybody knows there’s no such thing as invincibility, especially in prize fighting, but with Ronda we were willing to play dumb. This was a different kind of star, leagues ahead of her contemporaries. She’s been nothing other than intoxicating since she inherited the UFC title after the Strike-force buy out. Joe Rogan said she wasn’t a once in a generation fighter, but once in an ever fighter. He almost cried when she appeared on his podcast when he got to actualizing her historical value. 
The spell extended to his partner, Mike Goldberg, who right in the middle of Holm’s dismantling of Rousey, cried out awkwardly, "it takes a lot of energy to be a rock star!" Such was the blissful oblivion of those six minutes before Rousey fell. It must have been a long, long flight back to the States for UFC executives and staff. You have to suspect the profound nature of all that was lost was a slow dawning, showing up in nauseating wave upon wave. There goes this, there goes that. Holy sh*t. Rousey is no longer the perfect storm. She can never be marketed the same way again. 

A perfectly executed game plan was all it took to humanize Rousey, who was on the cusp of entering the pantheon of all-time sports greats. If she has already crossed over, time will tell. But Holm now holds the belt, which was an idea that was unthinkable in the lead up. She stayed mobile and punished Rousey’s aggression, of which there was plenty. When the time came to unload, she did. Holm was brilliant. She was everything people thought she was not poised, opportunistic, superior. That head kick will last forever.

And the devastation of that head kick changed everything. The women’s bantamweight division is now open for business again. The warden is out. There was rejoicing from everybody from Cristiane Justino to Miesha Tate to Amanda Nunes afterwards. The small picture took on a bunch of color.

UFC 200, a foregone conclusion for Rousey’s next title defense in July, is now hanging out there as her date of redemption. Even when she gets her next crack at it, the life-blood of her transcendence  — that she is the fight game’s nonpareil — is no longer in play. How does she respond? That’s the new drama, but it’s going to be different. The diehards will care more about her response than the casuals, who’ve now seen the unthinkable become thinkable. The essence of her big picture allure now belongs to Melbourne. It can’t be the same again. Things will narrow.
Not that there wasn’t plenty of poetry at UFC 193. There is inspiration in seeing an underdog like Holm show up in her best form at the exact moment when everything is heightened beyond measure. If Rousey inspires young girls to be like her, Holm inspires the ones who’ve been daydreaming of beating her. 
And it’s hard not to appreciate the UFC’s matchmaking model in all of this. Sean Shelby and Joe Silva book challengers that they believe can beat the champion. They don’t protect anybody, at least not for long. This isn’t boxing. The UFC makes its champions vulnerable at all times. It’s in that gamble that the essence of those letters stands out. The UFC sells vulnerability as much as it does invincibility. Holm was booked to face Rousey. 

The herd of pigs that control Mexico

In this poor Mexico, so full of corrupt politicians, thieves dressed in nice suits and vested with public office; partners with the most dangerous drug traffickers and kidnappers of Mexico and of the world; each and every one of them come out of a corrupted "caste"; they arise from the deepest sewers of society and they are proud to show their shit adorned with jewelry and first class clothing.

They have never known what it means to work; they spend their lives "doing business" through family contacts also covered with shit.

They study in the best universities in Mexico and abroad, they affiliate to parties by "tradition" not by conviction, they do it to the sewer to which their father belong; to the same sewer they plunge unceremoniously, not because they "feel their ideology" as theirs but because they know that within this cesspool the "best" businesses are hatched!!!

They care neither for the country nor its people, what catches their attention is walking around showing all the shit that covers them, "adorning" it in excesses; of alcohol, drugs, parties, trips, properties, relationships with drug dealers, cars and superfluous things!!!

They are a herd of pigs emerged from the sewers, which are disguised as a pack of hungry dogs to take everything, no matter how or where, what matters is to share what they find!!!

They participate in different sewers (political parties) and they do it following the footsteps of their herds of predecessors, not by conviction but by "opportunity"; they move into the manure easily, because is in the sewers where they have grown.

When they "grow up" and depending on the thickness of the layer of shit around their parents, they climb different "positions" within politics; there are even some of them who reach the Presidency of the Republic and they are not interested in the country, nor in Mexican citizens, or anything other than getting rich out of the labor of the citizens!!!

Their businesses, only privilege those who emerge from the sewers; sewers where they smeared large layers of excrement that covers them and that serves them as identification!!!

These slags covered with excrement, become Congress members, Senators, Secretaries of State, political leaders, union leaders, Governors, Mayors, Trustees, Aldermen, "social representatives" and all kinds of parasites who are only looking forward to do dirty businesses, to raise their hands when it is convenient to them, to negotiate with criminals and to plunder the country !!!

Their intention is to reach to the top of the mountain of shit, and from there, to distribute everything that can be stolen; their goal is to do business with another large herd of pigs dressed up with layers and layers of manure like they do, but that they live in the corporate sector, where they handle and cover all the dirty businesses they do, covering their manure "partners"; both sides are concerned only in continuing doing business with their peers, regardless of Mexico’s continue sinking into shit!!!

Sadly, most of the society, is more concerned about receiving the “alms” that these pigs give them disguised as social programs; the citizens are more concerned about finding out the outcome of the soap opera, the results of the All Stars Soccer Team; they are concerned in watching what is going on in Big Brother and many more stupid TV Shows than into finishing this corruption chain!!!

It's sad, really sad, that Mexico is sinking more and more and nobody cares...

WE ARE AWESOME!!!

No matter what our kids and the new generation think about us, WE ARE AWESOME!!!  

OUR Lives are LIVING PROOF!!!

  
To those of us born between 1925 and 1970:

At the end of this email is a quote of the month by Jay Leno. If you don't read anything else, please read what he said. Very well stated, Mr. Leno!

 
TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE   1930s, '40s, '50s, '60s and '70s!!! 

First, we survived being born to mothers who may have smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing and tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. 

Then, after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies, in baby cribs covered 
with bright colored lead-based paints; we had no Child-proof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets, and, when we rode our bikes, we had baseball caps, not helmets, on our heads.  

As infants and Children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes. 

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.  

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle; we shared one Soft drink with four friends, from one bottle, and no one actually died from this. 

We ate cupcakes, White bread, real butter, and bacon. We drank Kool-Aid made with real white sugar, and we weren't overweight!!!

WHY?     
Because we were Always outside playing... that's why!  

We would leave Home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.  No one was able to reach us all day, and we were OKAY.  

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride them down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes… after running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Play Stations, Nintendos and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable; no video movies or DVDs, no surround-sound or CDs, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet and no chat rooms.  

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them! We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth, and there were no lawsuits from those accidents.

We would get spanked with wooden spoons, switches, ping-pong paddles, or just a bare hand, and no one would call child services to report abuse; we ate worms, and mud pies made from dirt,
and the worms did not live in us forever.  

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, 22 rifles for our 14th, rode horses, made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and -although we were told it would happen- we did not put out any eyes.  

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.  

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.  Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment.  Imagine that!!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law! 

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever. The past 50 to 85 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all. If
YOU are one of those born between 1925 to 1970, CONGRATULATIONS!  

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.  

While you are at it, forward it to your kids, so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.  

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?  

 The quote of the month by Jay Leno:  

 
"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
 attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?"  

 For those who prefer to think that God is not watching over us... go ahead and delete this…  
 For the rest of us... please pass this on.   

The history of Chile forgotten by many, 42 years after...

The coup in Chile, on September 11th 1973, was a military action carried out by the Armed forces of Chile, conformed by the Army, the navy and the air Force, along with the Carabineros (Carabiniers) with the intention to overthrow the socialist President Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens and the left Government of the Unidad Popular (Popular Unity).

Salvador Allende took over the Presidency of Chile in 1970, he became the first western politician with a Marxist orientation who accessed to power through general elections in a Constitutional State. His government, with a strong reformist tendency was characterized for an increasing political polarization in society and a strong crisis which led into a social convulsion.

The possibility of executing a coup against the government of Salvador Allende existed even before his election. The government of the United States, led by President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State henry Kissinger, influenced decisively in groups opposed to Allende, financing and actively supporting the realization of a coup. Among these actions were the murder of General Rene Schneider and the Tanquetazo, a military uprising on June 29th, 1973.  

In mid-1973, after the Tanquetazo, groups within the Chilean Navy planned to overthrow the government, to which later on, the high commanders of the Air Force and groups within Carabineros joined. Days before the scheduled date for the military action, Augusto Pinochet, the Chief Army Commander joined them. On the morning of September 11, the Military Leadership of the armed forces and police were able to quickly control most of the country and demanded the immediate resignation of Salvador Allende, who took refuge at the Palacio de la Moneda (the Moneda Palace). After the bombing of the presidential palace, Allende committed suicide and the resistance at the Palace was neutralized.   

The coup marked the end of the government of Unidad popular which was followed by the establishment of a Military Government led by Pinochet. Chile, which in that time was one of the steadiest democracies in Latin America, entered into a civilian-military dictatorship that lasted until 1990. During this period systematic violations of human rights were perpetrated , the liberty of expression was limited, the political parties were suppressed and the Nation Congress was dissolved.