I’ve been in touch with “Always Up For Drinks” Bob Tarantino about a Toronto blogfest. We both seem to think November 5, 2004 would be a good date. So, mark that on your calendar, with more information to follow regarding place and time. I missed the last one, in February so I’m looking forward to […]
Bruce Montague now has a website. For those who don’t know who Bruce is, he’s a gunsmith in Dryden Ontario, who refused to obey the Canada Firearms Act. In the past, he has invited the police to arrest and charge him, but until a couple of weeks ago, they refused. While at a local gun
To fly the Red Ensign on my site. Not because of what I think of the Red Ensign, or having some “patriotic” feelings towards it – no. Instead, to honour those Red Ensign bloggers that emailed me today after my utter and crazy posts of last night that were motivated by anger, and prompted by
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Back to our regular programming… Most have probably heard the tune, “Davy, Davy Crockett, king of the wild frontier.” What some don’t know is that not only was David Crockett a king of the wild frontier in Tennessee as well as one of the fighters that lost his life while fighting for Texas independence at
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Last night, I received a bunch of ANONYMOUS emails without any name, calling me a “Chicken Shit” and also suggesting I had no character and so forth. There were quite a few of them, all obviously aimed at my recent posts regarding drafts and conscriptions. I have my suspicions as to who they were from,
Randolph BOURNE on war “War is the health of the State.” — Randolph Bourne, The State (1918), available at http://www.slip.net/~knabb/CF/bourne.htm. Richard CARTWRIGHT on the rights of individuals in Canada “I think that every true reformer, every real friend of liberty, will agree with me in saying that if we must erect safeguards, they should be
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Banner ad seen on Sitemetre.com: “When you have that father-son talk Don’t leave out the hardest part. Teach boys that violence against women is wrong.” Huh?? “Teach early. Click Here To Learn How” So I click through. Out of curiousity sake. And I see an article abstract which says, “October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month”
First, I’d like to offer my respects to Kate of Small Dead Animals. I visit her blog daily, and sometimes several times a day. On most points we agree. Not only does she offer witty and intelligent commentary (something we don’t see to often from the Province of Saskatchewan ;} ), I really enjoy her
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The London Fog cuts through the mist of illogical reporting in the city of London with some great fisking of an article which asks the wrong “why” questions. I wonder “why” these nincompoops continue to ask the wrong “why” questions. Why am I still alive at 41 (give or take another week or two), played
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