Hello all Henry here. I grew up with guns. My father gave me my first one when I was about 12 years old. I was the most feared hunter of posts, trees and the odd crow bothering our corn. Guns were a part of life for everyone. Care with guns was essential if no one […]
Henry here. When I was in cadets there wasn’t much training but I chose to train as a medic. I thought that was the most civilized role. I especially was not eager to kill people.
I had an old supervisor, long since dead, who made the same choice. At 15, he lied about his age […]
Hello today, Steve here. Just a quick post today, a quick note on Conrad Black. Lord Black of Wherever was sentenced yesterday to 6 1/2 years behind bars for, well, for being a criminal, for taking people’s money and making people suffer. There has been a written about this in the last few months and […]
Henry here. This morning’s paper was headlined Magdalene Islands datelined the CanWest News Service. The headline reads Erosion threatens Magdalene Islands. We are generally able to dismiss concern about rising sea levels to the future or to far off places out of our experience. But here is a set of islands in our […]
Henry here. Boys will be boys we say when boys are rambunctious. So we excuse a broad range of behaviors. We may not entirely approve of it, but for boys it is fairly normal, but sometimes it goes overboard.
A newspaper article datelined London England says that a judge sentenced five boys to two years […]
Good day, Henry here. King Tut’s body was finally revealed recently as archeologists carefully unveiled him, 85 years after Howard Carter first discovered his tomb with its fabulous riches.
Like almost everybody else, I have read various articles about Tut over the years which were all interesting but really had nothing to do with me. Then […]
Henry here today. The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Glen Race who is charged with three cross border killings is getting sicker without his medication. He is being held in a prison in New York and apparently not being treated for his paranoid schizophrenia. He is not getting appropriate medication and in addition he is […]
Henry here today. The Canadian Press reported yesterday that Glen Race who is charged with three cross border killings is getting sicker without his medication. He is being held in a prison in New York and apparently not being treated for his paranoid schizophrenia. He is not getting appropriate medication and in addition he is […]