Greetings all, Steve here. I’m afraid I’m feeling a little under the weather, so today’s post is going to be short and sweet. I hardly ever post just links to other things, preferring original content, but these were just too good. A friend of mine sent me links to three trailers, expertly reedited from Hollywood […]
Two items struck me in the paper this morning. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to visit Canada and Maude Barlow, national chairperson for the Council Of Canadians, made a speech this weekend in which she warned Canada to avoid following “in the footsteps of President George W. Bush.”
Apparently Rice is planning to ask […]
Greetings all, Steve here. There are many difficulties in planning and executing a surprise party. If it’s an outdoor party, it might rain. If it’s an indoor party, your house might burn down. Maybe people won’t show up on time. Maybe people will slip and tell the person by accident beforehand. If it’s a surprise […]
I was fascinated by a newspaper picture from the Associated press this morning. It shows a seventy-five year old grandmother being put into a police wagon, arrested because she and 16 other grandmothers attempted to enter a U.S. Armed Forces Recruiting Station and enlist in place of soldiers currently deployed in Iraq. In the picture, […]
You are Rich!
According to two emails today and two yesterday that I inherited, I have won or can be in the receipt of incredible amounts of money, millions and millions of dollars. I have begun to wonder if those people know something that I don’t. When I get those notices, I delete them immediately, […]
Greetings, and welcome once again to Steve’s Oh God Save And Preserve Us, We’re All Going To Die Report. I spend quite a bit of time every week scrolling through the web, looking for news bits that I can write about and occasionally, just occasionally, I find patterns, patterns that allow me to come […]
Last year there were two Japanese soldiers who had been hiding out in an inaccessible part of a jungle in the Far East who came out of the forest and surrendered themselves to the authorities. Apparently, they still believed that the Second World War was still on. Such tales fascinate us. It is a message […]
The newspaper tells the story of a young woman who had to leave her 18-month old daughter in Ireland so that she could return to work in Halifax. The mother had the daughter’s birth certificate, social insurance and health cards but that was not enough to reassure authorities that the child was not a […]
I have to have minor surgery. I have had a thing on my neck for decades. My doctor looked at it and decided to refer me and so this morning I went to see the surgeon. He said it had to come off. Driving home I got to thinking that in my early years, […]