22nd
January
2008
An interesting (as in odd) political model was presented this week by our current mayor; less is more. Not equal; more. In an attempt to “teach those municipal employees a lesson”, his proposal is to reduce the number of city councillors, because we would then reduce the salary envelope. An example to the fellows on the sand/salt trucks or the lawnmower pilots. If we need fewer elected officials to “get the job done”, we could also do with less of you overpaid/underworked blue collars.
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8th
January
2008
No thanks, I’m fine right where I am. I’ve finished another great book by Paul Theroux, and it comes at the moment where the closest I’m likely to approach to the border of my country is, well, irrelevant. I’m not intending to travel any time soon.
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12th
December
2007
When the alarm goes each morning, I awake with a sense of joy that I am alive and a feeling of relief that our New Government isn’t responsible for managing the country. What! They are, you say? Oh my… isn’t that special?
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10th
December
2007
And when you are afraid, find sanctuary in your church. Except if you live in a place where guns are always ready. Like yesterday, in a church parking lot in Colorado Springs, where two are dead and four other wounded after a shooting spree. The clincher is that the original shooter was taken down by an armed security guard from the church.
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2nd
December
2007
I’m seeking solace in the sentiment that I’m not quite like the majority (and that is clearly a good thing). Referring to political tastes here, of course. We’ve spent another day in the strange limbo that exists between the dropping of a ballot into the slot and the result announced via a website that updates every few minutes, numbers growing but percentages remaining constant.
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30th
November
2007
What is one to do when the proverbial “bad hair day” strikes with a vengeance. The kind of day where you put on a hat, but the hair just sticks out in all directions, and no amount of time in front of a mirror remedies things. Our new government seems to be caught in such a vortex, helped along by a German vacuum cleaner salesman.
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13th
November
2007
Some days are weak on the news front. I still take the time to listen, but like everyone else, I’m just going through the motions. Good news is hard to come by sometimes.
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5th
November
2007
Let’s assume for a minute that you have a very successful store, where there is never a shortage of clients, but you decide to close the store because you couldn’t find someone to run the cash register. Or how about a mass transit system, where people are lined up at the stops but you decide to cancel the “run” because there’s a shortage of drivers. Consider the musical group that decides to give up public concerts because the drummer is absent. In any of these models, the correct solution is to find the missing parties needed to complete your equation.
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31st
October
2007
What kind of fool voluntarily pays taxes on money that doesn’t exist? Well, the same kind of fool that sues a country because his feelings are hurt.
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16th
October
2007
It all comes down to attitude. In less than thirty minutes, the country will suspend its sense of disbelief. My studies under the eminent Dr. St. Jean called that a hypnotic trance. We will unite in front of our radios and television receivers, in a state of rapture as the next series of priorities of a New Government will be read aloud for the hard of hearing by the appointed representative of a monarch. Actually, hypnotism might be a choice, if it reduces the ache in my joints.
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