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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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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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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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I usually enjoy my morning news read. It’s not always good news, I but it always makes me think. That’s normally a good thing, but not this morning. This morning its just frustrating. This morning I was reading about Afghanistan. According to the Associated Press, Afghanistan is set to receive $16,000,000,000 through 2015. This is…
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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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I recently read an article on the Ottawa Sun app that makes the impending zombie apocalypse look downright appealing. It all has to do with a teenage girl’s letter to Santa. At first glance, it seems sweet that thirteen year old Mekeeda Austin still writes letters to Santa. That warm, fuzzy feeling comes to a…
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So here we are once again. It`s that time of the year when the malls fill up with people desperately searching for`the perfect gift`. It goes on every year, but let`s stop and think a moment about what that perfect gift is. It`s something you put some thought into. It`s not just an I want…
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My brother sent me a link yesterday to a cute little video. In it, an animated squirrel loudly laments an allegedly lamentable fact: Change jars for dogs collect more change than similar jars for kids in retail settings. The squirrel, or more accurately it’s creator is outraged by this. Really, really outraged. The inference is…
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