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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

I am shocked and angry!

I am rarely shocked and almost a stranger to anger. (And to those few who read my ‘Views’ blog and beg to differ because of my writings about Islam – you’re wrong! Muslim terror neither shocks me, nor does it make me angry. In view of history, I’d be shocked if it were otherwise; nor is there cause... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 21, 2012

And then there was Ben…Part XXV

Ben has balls – more than a dozen of them; I have no time for establishing the exact count – they’re all over the house, in nooks and crannies and corners and under furniture. Some of these balls are honestly acquired, that is to say they’re bought; and, since he lacks the necessary wherewithal,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 18, 2012

And then there was Ben…Part XXIV

It’s been a while since I’ve been telling you about my doggie, who’s been with us for more than six months, and who is now really feeling at home here. (For those new to this blog: Our beloved black standard poodle Jag died on 22 Jan; towards the end of Feb we took in a ‘rescue dog’, Ben, a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Thoughts on the Nobel Prize…

When I was kid, I developed the kind of reverend attitude towards the Nobel Prize that others develop towards, well, whatever turns them on, LOL; it’s something I came by naturally because my Dad viewed getting the Nobel Prize as the pinnacle of human achievement. One could argue, of course, that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 9, 2012

A headline from today’s CNN…Part II

Just in case my post from yesterday was interpreted wrongly, let me add a few words. My post, and indeed the headline in CNN, wasn’t about Cesar Chavez, a man for whom I have always had some admiration, and with whom I agreed on his stance against illegal immigration, even if his reasons were more... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 8, 2012

A headline from today’s CNN:

Obama creates monument to Cesar Chavez! [My exclamation mark] I haven’t read the details - the headline says it all, as far as I am concerned, and besides I have other things to do… Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

To All Canadians...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! And the Americans have to wait, nyah nyah, nyah nyah... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Richard Leakey is WRONG…

Pat has a very nice post up this morning – and I commented that it’s ‘good, clean fun.’ My comment was prompted by an insight, which in turn was prompted by reading another interesting piece this morning just before I read Pat’s – one by Richard Leakey, son of the famous archeologists Louis and Mary... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Travel…Part V

Having pushed my bill into the tray in the narrow slot under the edge of the bullet-proof glass protecting the assorted coinage of the world and having said “Euros, please!” into the small microphone built into it I look up, and I notice the dim outline of a lady who, although she’s facing me, is on... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Travel…Part IV

Here I am, at the end of a line-up of at least twenty people with their bundles and things; before me a couple in their thirties, with two kids, one four- or five-year old boy and an infant in a carrier. And they have a trolley full of stuff. The little boy is obviously bored; he is fidgety, and his... Sign in to see full entry.

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