Perspectives

We were in Knoxville TN enroute to Florida last week when we turned on the television to see what was happening in the rest of the world.

My physician will be pleased to know that my salt intake has returned to normal. We watched Mike Moore’s SICKO movie on television last week and I swallowed so many grains of salt that my blood pressure shot up.

Reading the year-end lists of ‘Top Stories’ chosen by the media, who not only report but often influence the importance of the stories, is similar to writing and then reading your own report card in grade six.

It is the time of year when the Grinches and Scrooges appear, bewailing the commercialism of Christmas because they wish not to share gifts with friends and family.

We were chatting at the Conspiracy the other evening when Pat said he recently read something he had not previously known. A flock of crows is called a ‘murder’.

It is that time of year to drop a couple of hints of what I might enjoy receiving for a Christmas gift, although Mrs Santa often misinterprets my list and gets me a new sweater or a tie and matching Argyle socks, I keep trying.

The current kerfuffle in Ottawa between our diplomats, generals and politicians would make a good farce were there not lives in the balance.

I have long been an advocate for doing away with the Long Gun registry, firstly as a needless waste of money because of lack of compliance and bureaucratic bungling, and secondly because I believe most of the long gun owners are not a threat to publi

My initial feeling of disgust at seeing the photo of a 12-year-old girl and a dead deer was only amplified by the accompanying article in our local paper last Thursday.

Recent public opinion polls indicate that a large portion of our population is questioning all the hype around H1N1. For years people in the health industry (yes, it is an industry) have been warning us about a pandemic.