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Stop Iran 2008-07-09 12:46:00 While browsing the net today I saw an image I can only describe as frightening.It set me thinking about the ridiculous game the world community is having to play with Iran trying to dissuade it from developing nuclear weapons, sometimes threatening force, sometimes sanctions and sometimes rewards of various kinds. If only Iran would stop doing what it says it is not doing but is doing: developing
Of Health and Other Things 2008-07-08 01:17:00 It was a beautiful day as you can see from the picture below.But, I had to go to the hospital for a small but persistent problem my son's been having. The result was an 8 hour wait in the waiting room of the hospital filled with crying infants, harried parents, and nobody giving a damn.I found myself thinking at this time, what in the world have we come to? How is it that the health system is in Read more:Health
Stephane Dion's Carbon Tax 2008-07-07 09:56:00 Someone once told me Stephane Dion is a good guy. Good guys are said to come last and with this new idea of the Carbon
Tax one wonders if Dion has set himself up to do just that.We all know that we are making a mess of the world we live in, we are polluting our water, damaging our earth and poisoning the air we all breathe. Even the hardcore cynic would agree that this is happening (well, maybe no
Mark Steyn - Marked 2008-07-06 00:49:00 I was on Mark Steyn's blog. He is outraged anew since he was dragged in front of the BC Human Rights Commission for, allegedly, making anti muslim statements in his book. Mark has a posse of supporters, all also equally outraged, columnist Andrew Coyne and Ezra Lavant (does anyone know what he does now that his magazine has gone bankrupt?) to name a couple (Ezra reportedly had to make room for th Read more:Marked
Canadian Misgovernment 2008-07-04 14:14:00 Like many Canadian
s, I have been witness to the Maxime Bernier situation. It is astonishing how the debate concerning the effect of Mr. Bernier's choices in life has fallen on party lines.Mr. Bernier was a high ranking minister in the Canadian government with, aside from the Prime Minister's, the most important post of all, that of Foreign Affairs. For this person to be in a relationship with a wo
Divorce For the Love of Children 2008-07-04 11:09:00 ‘We did it for the children,’ at times this is the reason I hear for the divorce. As reasons for divorce go, in my opinion, it is rather feeble.What do we find when we explore research on the effects of divorce on children? We find that invariably the effect is devastating and long lasting. Children
of divorce do poorly than children who come from intact homes on virtually every index of perfo
Charged Matters - Should Gay People be Allowed to Adopt Children? 2008-07-02 08:57:00 A friend recently adopted a baby from India and when she went to pick up the baby she met a lesbian couple who happened to be collecting their newly adopted child the day she was receiving hers. My friend came back to Canada quite troubled - she was having a strong reaction to the lesbian couple being given a child.I do not know if I am a 'liberal' but by-and-large am quite accepting of difference Read more:Charged
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A brilliant day 2008-07-01 00:40:00 For father's day my wife and children took me to an air museum, I love that kind of stuff. I don't care much for getting things - this is what I find to be truly valuable.'Took this beautiful picture while I was there, just look at this gorgeous machine, beautiful, a real work of art. What a thrill it would have been to have flown this.To my wife, thanks sweetie for organizing this for me.I love y
Post launching 2008-06-30 10:55:00 This is my second blog of the day. Clearly I am very excited. Earlier I blogged about Amitabh Bachchan's blog.I was reflecting on why I created this blog and it is because I would like to communicate with others about things that matter to me, things like the environment (a word that is about the air we breathe, the water we drink and the food we eat, but turned into a vile term for many too busy
Launching 2008-06-30 09:21:00 Hi all,I happened to be reading Amitabh Bacchan's blog the other day (for those who do not know, Amitabh Bachchan is India's most industrious (if not illustrious) actor, who apparently, with his son as a leading actor and his daughter-in-law as the top female performer, has spawned a dynasty in the Indian film industry) and was surprised that it was apparently he who was blogging (rather than a pa
Oh Serbia 2008-07-23 01:13:00 They found Radovan Karadžić. Well, found, I don't know if one can use that word when someone is right there under one's nose, and one knows it all along, and then one day decides to hand him over because one is tired of hiding a hot potato. He was, after all in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia
, when he was arrested! But to say this one would be cynical about politics and there is certainly no roo
Faith 2008-07-21 15:46:00 Let me light my lamp, says the starAnd never debate if it shall dispel the dark - Rabindranath Tagore Read more:Faith
That Queasy Feeling 2008-07-21 01:00:00 I have a queasy feeling in my stomach, a lingering nausea that has suspended me at a pre-heave stage for some time now. I recall vaguely the moment it started, it was about a year or so ago and Preston Manning had just finished talking about his ‘Manning Center for Building Democracy’ on CBC. I won’t rehash everything he said but I will talk about what was so heave-worthy, also the key point Read more:Feeling
Filthy Business 2008-07-17 14:22:00 Calgary has recently been debating fining smokers who litter the streets with their cigarette butts. It’s about time! How often do we see someone throwing a lit cigarette out of his car while driving on the road? Not a day goes by when this does not happen. Seeing this, one is left to wonder whether these people are demented, callous or just obnoxious? One of the most disturbing sights I have se Read more:Business
What’s The Fuss About Omar Khadr? 2008-07-17 01:26:00 On June, 4, Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, was charged before a US military commission for allegedly killing an American soldier in Afghanistan in 2002. At the time, Khadr was just 15 years old. Khadr is now 20 and being held by the US as a prisoner at its army base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.The US alleges that at age 10, Khadr’s father took him to meet al-Qaeda leaders, that in the summer of 2
Omar Khadr and What's Up Canada? 2008-07-16 09:59:00 I have been reading a fair bit on the Omar Khadr case recently in the Globe and Mail. I feel that I do not know enough about the issue so I am going to do some research on just how a 15 year old Canadian ended up in US custody at Guantanamo Bay of all places. The news media has had snippets on his family, usually shown as a group of Burqa clad women (I wonder where the men are) spewing anti wester Read more:Canada
Freedom or Farce 2008-08-07 08:40:00 In almost every case where I see a woman smoking it is a white woman. Are white women more liberated then than others or more enslaved? Read more:Farce
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Words Are Like Arrows 2008-08-06 15:03:00 What is that old adage, words are like arrows…? Sometimes in life the most difficult thing is getting over hurts caused by things said in the heat of the moment. Meant or not, the unpleasantness of things said without care can last a long time, long after all is said and done. And as acid can burn skin, it can consume a marriage that otherwise might have worked. In those relationships where disa Read more:Arrows
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Flip Obama Flop Obama 2008-08-01 10:02:00 "If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election." --Barack Obama
, answer to Midwest Democracy Network questionnaire, September 2007.In February 2007, Barack Obama challenged Republican presidential candidates to agree to public financing of the general election. John McCain responded positively.Fa
Open communication or Open Hate? 2008-07-31 16:37:00 There is the idea that modern communication
is going to bring people together and create some kind of a better world for all. But advanced technology is not necessarily delivering the utopia one would expect.Established groups, corporations, governments, so forth often use the Internet to disseminate propaganda. This is irksome indeed, what is much more disturbing is the way in which Internet-savv
America: Coming Back Home 2008-07-30 11:06:00 Eight out of ten America
ns think their country is heading in the wrong direction. They consider George Bush, whose ratings are lower than Nixon’s during the Watergate scandal, partly to blame. One source of angst is the wretched state of the American economy. American house prices are falling faster than during the Depression, fuel is more expensive than in the 1970s, banks are collapsing, the e
Of Small Mercies 2008-07-29 23:22:00 'Overheard a conversation today, a white lady asking a young Indian woman from Punjab who had recently immigrated to Canada if she would ever go back to India. The young woman was dressed in flip flops, short shorts and a T shirt. She was wearing a fair amount of gold, 22 carat, as is common with Indian people; bangles, dangling earrings, stud in the nose. She looked quite attractive. White woman: Read more:Small
India's Nightmare 2008-07-28 14:32:00 Bombs go off killing dozens. It is just another day in India
. Over the past two decades, attacks by terrorists, sometimes Muslim sometimes Sikh have become a commonplace occurrence in India, the culprits targeting innocent civilians in places easy to strike. In eastern Varanasi, a deadly explosion kills a group of Hindus as they light lamps to the Hindu deity Hanuman one evening. In Delhi, shopper Read more:Nightmare
One Chance 2008-08-22 18:12:00 I GIVE YOU ONCE CHANCE ASSHOLE, ONE CHANCE AND THEN IT IS MY BOOT AND YOUR ASS. OR, YOUR ASS AND MY BOOT. EITHER WAY, I AM WEARING THE BOOT AND YOU ARE WEARING THE ASS...ONE CHANCE. Read more:One Chance
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