A wounded man is in far better care than a gassed man

  When you research WW1 letters, often you never learn what happened to the soldier. Such is the case of the first letter I’m posting here. I know this unknown Canadian soldier’s  initials were W. A., he was from Ontario (possibly from Ivanhoe), his female friend was newly married and moved to Foxboro, Ontario and [...]

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Yea, I know this is old news

I realise this is old news, but what can I say – the Right Wing have been busy lately. Last week former New York City Mayor Rudy Guiliani went on “Good Morning America” and made this bold statement: “what [Obama] should be doing is following the right things that Bush did.” (I’m working on figuring [...]

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Who knew?

Did you know Somalia had a Minister for Tourism? I almost fell out of my chair in disbelief this morning when I read that. Can you think of a tougher job? Who would want to visit? With each tourist visa do they issue a flak jacket and your own personal bomb disposal unit? Is one [...]

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Justice, Rhode Island style

Rhode Island Senator Rod Driver has offered to donate money for every second George Bush, Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney hold their breath while being waterboarded. He said he would donate $100 per second to whatever charity the unholy trinity chooses. Nice to see American ideals of right and wrong creeping back into the political [...]

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Wonderful – just bloody wonderful

As if being in Afghanistan isn’t dangerous enough, a group of Evangelical US soldiers are making the situation even worse by promoting their own evangelical agenda. Soldiers were handing out bibles to this very, very conservative and largely illiterate nation. Just having a Bible in their possession could jeopardise the lives of the poor Afghan [...]

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A wee bit baffled over this logic

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana, The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905 Peggy Noonan, Republican speechwriter and pundit, made this statement on the weekend concerning the Obama administration’s release of torture documents: “Some things in life need to be mysterious,” “Sometimes you need to just keep walking. [...]

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