Tag: culture
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June 29, 2008 11:16 AM EDT --
Americans sit around wondering why they have the highest per-capita murder rate in what we euphemistically call the "First World" and this gives rise to the question: "Just what is the . . .
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November 01, 2009 01:15 AM EST --
Well, it finally happened kids!
According to the Canwest News Service, there is at least one feminist out in B.C. who is expressing her true inner self!
Tony Clark, 22, was walking in the Brookswood . . .
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April 27, 2009 07:13 PM EDT --
Allan W Janssen is the author of the book The Plain Truth About God (What the mainstream religions don't want you to know......!) and is available as an E-Book H E R E! and . . .
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October 02, 2009 10:23 AM EDT --
I don't take pleasure in denigrating someone else's religion but sometimes things have to be brought out into the light so that everyone knows exactly what we are dealing with.
The following are two . . .
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November 02, 2009 12:22 PM EST --
Since I won't be doing any more posts for the rest of this week due to a hip replacement tomorrow, I thought I would leave you with something to think about!
Any regular reader of this post will know . . .
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February 23, 2009 04:56 PM EST --
Americans, Brits, Canadians and Aussies!
We all speak English, but that's where the similarities end!
Aussies: Dislike being mistaken for Brits when abroad.
Canadians: Are rather indignant . . .
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October 12, 2009 03:03 PM EDT --
Let's see..........., who did we piss off this week?
No, wait a minute, that list is too long, ........... who didn't we piss off this week? (That make for a much shorter list!)
Ah yes, the French! . . .
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October 22, 2009 10:36 PM EDT --
As am impartial third party observer I have been watching the political situation in the United States with increasing alarm for quite some time now!
Helped along by 9/11 and a bunch of other events . . .
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April 12, 2009 10:37 AM EDT --
I got a letter from my Grandmother the other day and thought I would pass it along!
Dear Allan;
Well it certainly has been a while since we talked so I thought I would send you a short note on what . . .
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September 04, 2009 04:07 PM EDT --
I was reading a science journal the other day and was surprised to discover that some dinosaurs had common ancestors with reptiles like lizards and alligators and snakes and komodo dragons and other . . .
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September 08, 2009 02:34 PM EDT --
I am sorry to have to admit this folks but I really am becoming a bit of a bigot as I get older, and I hope wiser!
The one good thing about aging is that I don't have to toe the line, or be politically . . .
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October 25, 2009 10:50 AM EDT --
If you're anything like me you do the occasional stupid thing and then sit back later on and say to yourself: "What the hell was I thinking?"
Most of the time, (if you have regained your senses,) . . .
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June 25, 2008 07:48 PM EDT --
Well a few days off and now back to work, but since it is now officially summer let's keep things on a light note.
Our world has changed a lot in the last while and no matter how bad you think . . .
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June 28, 2008 01:20 PM EDT --
Believe it or not kids, there are some people who really still believe that the Earth is flat, and nothing will convince them otherwise! No sir!
But then again that shouldn't come as too . . .
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July 26, 2008 03:26 PM EDT --
I don't know how relevant this is to anything, or if there is any scientific truth to it, but I read today that one of the main differences between us and other animals is in the way that we think! . . .
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August 17, 2008 08:54 AM EDT --
Our winner of the day, week, month and year has to go to Michael Phelps who won his eighth Olympic gold medal of the Beijing Games to beat Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven.
Phelps, who swam . . .
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March 01, 2009 12:12 PM EST --
A site called INSTABLOGS regularily features articles from the best blogs in the country.
(We are proud to say that "Perspective" is a regular contributer to this site!)
This one caught . . .
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October 07, 2009 01:22 PM EDT --
From the "Perspective" research department comes word that Lawrence Livermore Laboratories in California has discovered the heaviest element yet known to science.
The new element, Governmentium . . .
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June 26, 2009 01:41 PM EDT --
One thing you can always count on with people is that sooner or later they show their true colours and it's no different with the religious leaders in Iran.
A hard line Iranian cleric on Friday called . . .
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March 03, 2009 05:46 PM EST --
There is a radio station in New Orlean's called WWL AM and FM and like a lot of radio stations in North America these days they have talk shows during the day!
Yesterday, one of the subjects discussed . . .
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