Society
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Disgraced former media mogul and ex-con Conrad Black is saying he shouldn’t be stripped of his Order of Canada. Why not? He is a convicted criminal who served over three years for fraud and obstruction of justice. What part of that sounds like he should be allowed to keep one of Canada’s highest honors? Oh, he…
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Like many other people, my daughter and I both have cell phones. The idea is for us to be able to quickly and easily talk wherever, whenever. The reality is quite different… sort of. Earlier today my wife and I were (as usual) trying to decide what to have for supper. As a deciding factor,…
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Anyone who reads this blog knows I’m not a Mitt Romney fan. His comment about the “47 percent” didn’t make me like him any more. It also didn’t make me feel all warm and fuzzy about him possibly being the next President of the United States. I have however found something to make that idea…
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan just sustained another giant kick in the groin. The head of the NATO mission has just announced the immediate cessation of joint Afghan/NATO patrols. To date, these joint patrons have been the norm and represented the cornerstone in the UN plan to train indigenous police and military forces to assume…
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I’m a Chuck Norris fan. I have enjoyed many of his movies over the years and have nothing but respect for him as an action star. Politically however….. not so much. You see, Chuck and his wife Gena just did a Republican PSA to get out the evangelical Christian vote come election time. That’s actually…
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I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Miss Carson during the demi-Centennial year of her book “Silent Spring”. For those unfamiliar with it, the book described a very near future in which one could walk through any suburban neighborhood without hearing a cicada, sparrow, or any other natural sound. All due to…
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This morning as I was browsing headlines from United Press International, I came across a story about 125 University students suspected of cheating on a final exam. The students are accused of either working together to come up with the answers or copying off one and other. One might reasonably suspect that it should be…
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Earlier today I was reading an article about Ann Romney’s speech at the Republican National Convention. This was the latest of the ongoing efforts to “humanize”, her husband, Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. This raises a couple important questions for me. The first question that springs to mind is, “Why should I believe anything she…
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This morning as I was sitting reading the news and enjoying my coffee (Keurig is awesome), I stumbled across an article from the Huffington Post. It seems Republican Congressional candidate Chris Collins was explaining his opposition to Obamacare when he rolled out this gem. “People now don’t die of Breast Cancer, Prostate Cancer and some…
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Photo by: Joe Burbank/Orlando Sentinel For those who don’t know, I don’t live in the U.S. I live in Canada, which means I still have a large vested interest in the activities of our friend and neighbour to the south. As such, I have been following with some interest the campaigns for the leadership of…
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