George “Skip” Wallin is back in letters to the editor. And, what a thrill! He’s once again been chosen by Letters editor Rod Allen as Letter of the Day. He must really be good. His point this time is similar to his point every time. Doctors know nothing about the
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The Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 21, Just a brief, Sunday note….
I’ve been out of touch with them for quite a while, but all the mafia I knew were great church attenders. Mostly Catholics, they usually made the earliest mass on Sunday – before breakfast, but after a night of checking gambling and hooker receipts. (Something, I guess, like casino operators.)
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 20: I really don’t want to say this, but….
…it has to be said.I do not think columnist George Sullivan is an evil man. I’m sure he does not think of himself as being prejudiced. My own feeling is that we are all of us prejudiced more than we care to think we are. But Sullivan’s column of yesterday, July
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 19: IRVING NAMED IN MEGANTIC LAWSUITS
That should have been the headline, page 1, in every paper of the Irving press today. Fifty people were killed. There is a link to Irving Oil, and to the owndership of the Irving Press. That is not to suggest that anything illegal was done. How could it be? Laws
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 18: Why hasn’t Jim Irving visited Lac Megantic?
Mr. Burkhardt, president of the railway that destroyed Lac Megantic and killed some fifty people, took five days to get up, brush his teeth, have a leisurely breakfast, and drop in to Lac Megantic to see how things were coming along. So far, the only help he has offered is
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 17: I’m sorry, I’m sorry. Life is heck….
I’ve been all day fixing my computer. (So I got my son to fix it.) So this is a very late blog – possibly a short one. A reader wrote to suggest that perhaps I should not be so hard on the TandT staff. After all, they know they have to
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 16: burned yesterday, power lost, no air conditioner all night, no sleep, still no power…
working on a (very) strange computer, lots of aches, depressed, annoyed…THE WORLD MUST PAY ATTENTION, Among lesser issues, the TandT has yet another letter from George (Skip) Wallin. He writes quite a few on the glories of shale gas. And today, he’s honoured as letter of the day. And he’s really
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: july 15: The asking of questions….
Picture an Irving Press reporter asking Joseph Stalin, “Were you nice to Ukrainians Mr. Stalin?” Stalin smiles and nods, and the Irving reporter scampers back with the next day’s headline. “Stalin nice to Ukrainians”. But a real reporter would look around, then ask a question.”If you were nice to them,
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 14:This is the making of history….
New Brunswick is, almost certainly, going through the most important political and economic moment it has seen in a hundred and fifty years – and more. The corruption and the moral rot that has characterized its past (and present) is for the first time being openly challenged. And the TandT and the whole Irving
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 13: On renovating your mansion in the correct style
You’ll find this useful article in the Home and Garden section, p. 1. It features Bill Clinton’s home (Georgian style), along with multi, multi million dollar homes in Gothic Revival etc. And it’s just packed with useful information on redecorating. For us peasants, there is one picture of a bungalow such
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: June 12: "Iwalked in the garden alone….
“While the dew was still on the roses…”My father, a mechanic, loved to sing hymns, putting all 250 pounds of him into it. And, from the age of eleven, I was his piano accompanist. “And he walks with me and he talks with me….” It all came back to me
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 11: journalistic scumbags..
…that’s a lower category than presstitutes. 1. A reader has informed me that Dr. Cleary, our Chief Medical Officer whose advice those twits in Federicton ignored when she warned about the dangers of shale gas, is getting a major, national award today. The Canadian Institute of Public Health Inspectors is
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 10: What newspapers cannot do…
Last night, on Youtube, I watched some of the many videos of the fire and explosions in Lac Megantic. No amount of reading could prepare me for the horror of what I saw. I was hypnotized by it. It is astonishing that the firefighters were able to bring it under
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 9: Fuss, feathers, and my crash….
I know. Tuesday at 4 p.m. is late to start a blog that should have been finished before noon – especially after missing yesterday. Look, I have issues, okay? I have relatives summering in widely scattered parts of the maritimes, relatives I haven’t seen since last summer So I’m driving
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: The most terrifying book…..
(This was written a week ago. It appears dated for Sunday only because I shall be out of touch with my computer that day.) Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark, Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons. , Walker Publishing, New York, 2007. Adrian Levy and
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 6: church and state
I write this dated for Saturday, but I’m writing it late on a sweltering, Friday late afternoon. I shall be posting it on Saturday morning, along with another post for Sunday because I shall be, in that time, soaking up some cold (I hope) salt water. In the July 5
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 5: Letter to the Editor: Tears and Laughter.
Today’s letter from from a Jim Cougle of Fredericton is a gem. “Savoie columns showed courage” Damn right. Savoie’s column showed enormous courage in the face of the Irvings ‘ well known opposition to shale gas. And for the Irving Press to have the courage to print it despite the
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 4: disappointment (partly) eased…
I won’t waste much time talking about most of today’s Times and Transcript because most of is the usual trivia and propaganda. Note the headliner for section A. “Health officials eye sustainable future”. Doesn’t that give you a warm and cuddly feeling? That’s what it’s supposed to do. The real
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 3: a crashing disappointment…
.. but first the small stuff.Our newspaper does not have the latest news about an item it has been shoving down our throats almost daily for the last several years – the “events” centre. CBC had the story yesterday. City Council knows all about it. It is impossible to believe
Continue readingThe Moncton Times@Transcript - Good and Bad: July 2: Just a short blog today….
…as I get to see two of my daughters and my granddaughters as they return to the shore for a couple of weeks. – and then I race back in time for the current events group in the library at 7 this evening. The whole first section of the TandT is scrap
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