Some Rants and Raves on the rapidly changing state of the world
Welcome back!It took 9 excrutiating days of hand wringing but like the daffodils in spring , theres more to come.
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I could never quite put my finger on it but a recent letter to the editor of The National Post makes a lot of sense in explaining our lack of medals.
Last year Australia received $190 million and have an accumulated 20 medals as of this writing. According to the people that blame it on [...]
According to USA today the average price of gas in the US continues to tumble, almost free falling toward levels not seen in five months. Mike O’Connor, president of the Virginia Petroleum says, “The reason prices are going down so far so fast is that they shouldn’t have been that high in the first place.”
With [...]
Here in BC we’re already seeing the repercussions of implementing an extra cost on energy. In the northern part of the province the switch from expensive oil furnaces to cheaper traditional wood stoves has seen a revival since the tax was introduced in July.
The carbon released by a wood stove, though certainly natural, is [...]
The religious witch-hunts in the New England of old used to encourage children to report evil doings by their parents.
In the Salem witch trials they tied the accused to an object like a chair then lowered the suspected witch into the water and if they drowned they were not witches, if they floated saved themselves [...]
Radovan Karadzic made his first appearance before an international war crimes court yesterday. The former Bosnian Serb leader was charged by the United Nations with 11 counts of war crimes, including genocide. There’s been several stories posted on this subject but The Daily Telegraph published the one that caught my eye.
In this article he reports [...]
