This may be a crazy question, but have you ever been around someone who seems to be determined to ‘Destroy’ you, no matter what the cost? Let me assure you, it ain’t a whole hell of a lot of fun. No matter what you say or do, it seems as though you have become a […]
I decided to pay a visit to the quaint little town of Port Colborne, Ontario today, and I enjoyed it. The air was cool and invigorating and smelled of autumn leaves. As I strolled down a street in the downtown area, I couldn’t help but notice that the ‘Jehovah’s Witnesses’ were back at it with
Isn’t it a shame when certain things that really should not have been gone out of vogue ended up being doing so on account of a few snivellers? It seems as though it is always a handful of crybabies that end up squawking the loudest, and ruining it for the rest of us who were
I received some sad news yesterday. While in attendance at a men’s meeting in the little village of Effingham Ontario, I received a text from my son Nathan informing me that my little Doggy Cindy had passed away in her sleep sometimes during the night. Born in November of 2011, she was nearly 14 years
“It will be bold, dramatic, heroic” These are the words of the hilarious little character known as Edna Mode, aka “E”, from the smash hit Disney/Pixar movie ‘The incredibles’, which was released November 4th, 2004 to a highly appreciative North American audience. The context of these words is when the Superhero ‘Mr. Incredible’ approached Edna,
It was early September of the year 1979. Me and my good friend Sharmon Shintani decided to head to the theater to see the re-release of ‘Star Wars’, arguably the greatest sci-fi adventure fantasy of all time. Before we hit the theater, we stopped in at a ‘Mr. Submarine’ on Ontario Street in St. Catharines
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What we can learn from the ‘Bay of Pigs’ Disaster The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de la Bahía de los Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the
There is a saying, ‘Victory has a thousand fathers, but failure is an orphan’. John F. Kennedy modified that slightly in the aftermath of the ill fated ‘Bay of Pigs’ invasion by saying “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan”. I’m pretty sure at that point in his presidency he was definitely
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“And he, he himself…The Grinch…carved the Roast Beast” I had an interesting interaction with my landlady this morning as I was about to step out for a bit. After exchanging the usual morning pleasantries, she asked me what I was up to. Well, knowing this lady, I knew that this probably was not going to
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The date was October 2nd, 1989. I had just gotten hired by a corporation known as the ‘Town of Lincoln’. It was one of those types of jobs that many guys, and a few girls my age would have loved to have. It would have been considered a ‘lifetime’ job, with good benefits and a
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