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Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Inch by inch…

You all know about Judaism’s holiest site – the West Wall or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. It’s what is left of the Second Temple after the Romans destroyed it in 70 AD., when the Roman general Titus (who later became emperor) had taken the city during the Jewish Revolt against Rome. It’s an event well... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 17, 2016

This story is about – Watches??

I like watches. I have several really good ones, self-winding, very accurate, and they look nice. The one I’m wearing now I have worn for years and I really never take it off – bed, shower, bath, sailing, playing squash, swimming pools, the Atlantic Ocean, working out – anything. The only time it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 16, 2016

Forgotten English…41

Do you know any? yabbock A chattering, talkative person; sometimes this is pronounced abbock. It is nearly the same with yackuz, a person who yacks. - John Mactaggart’s Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia, 1824 Virtually anytime I click the ‘on’ button on my remote I have droves of these yabbocks... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

A sad, touching and significant letter

“Sociologists and historians don’t care about people!” I’ve heard it said, and I’ve said it myself, largely for its ‘shock effect’, LOL. It’s something often completely misunderstood, suggesting that ‘those academics’ don’t care ‘what is happening to the individual’, or some such notion. In fact, of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

You may have forgotten long since…

At the very least, it’s probably tucked out of sight in some small, seldom used drawer of your mind – B (etc) O’s absolutely disastrous ‘legacy deal’ with Iran… But it’s there, and it’s having disastrous consequences… One of them is of course Iran ’s new-found capacity to finance Shia -Muslim... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 11, 2016

Imagine…

Imagine Wolfie Blitzer on CNN in his ‘Situation Room’ announcing that there would be a statement by the President, any moment now. And in due course, after some commercials about tomato soup, he elaborates. Of course, with Wolfie anything of substance is prefaced by a speech of some sort – and it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Late Repentance…

I really wish everyone would read this; but I know of course only very few will, for reasons only too well known – reasons that are an integral part of the ‘problem’… Most of what you read here is not news, or at least should not be news to you, if you’ve been reading me. One thing is new – that a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 9, 2016

Forgotten English…40

You would never use these – or maybe you would... goles Foolish and vulgar evasions of profane oaths, all including the Sacred Name, combined with some other word or words, which it might not be very difficult to conjecture, if not to ascertain…These aversions cannot assumed to be very ancient. The... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

The recent Munk Debate…

Back in 2008 Peter Munk, the founder and Chairman of Barrick Gold, one of Canada ’s major gold producers, founded a semi-annual event, the Munk Debate. The debates, held here in Toronto, focus on major policy issues and are increasingly popular. Though well aware of them and having thought about it,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

For a Change - the Truth…IV

Yes, they are coming out of the woodwork, as it were, and they’re all risking their lives… Here’s a journalist from Kuwait …[I have added one brief comment after the first paragraph.] Kuwaiti Writer: The Muslims Are Not Doing Enough Against Terrorism – And Some Are Even Praising It Kuwaiti writer... Sign in to see full entry.

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