From My Quotes Cupboard: Cat Battering for Sport in Medieval Times
In village games, players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of…
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Obama & Syria: A UN Formula that meets the interests of Obama and Putin
The Reluctant World Sheriff Right now, despite Senator Kerry waving a piece of paper after the negotiation session he had with Russia’s Foreign Minister, the wheels seem to be coming…
Church on the brink
Taken in the Swiss Alps – a small church clinging to the edge of the chasm. Believers to the left, unrepentant sinners to the right …
From My Quotes Cupboard: Evangelicals and the Deity
It also makes remarkably few demands on believers. On the contrary, they get to make demands on God, so that prayer … often consists of an extended series of requests…
From My Blog Cupboard: Tony Blair & Prince Charles
About Prince Charles: Shortly after their first meeting, I bumped into Prince Charles. “I had a meeting with Mr. Prescott recently,” he said. “Ah,” I said, “how did it go?”…
Thomas Mulcair’s NDP: Butting Heads against a Brick Wall
Consider for a moment two facts. One, the NDP is sinking in the polls, with the tide that started ebbing with Layton’s passing still receding from the distant shoreline of…
Obama & Syria: Another serious crisis that will not go to waste?
With the bottom falling out of the world’s financial markets, economies seizing up, panic setting in, one of President Obama’s top advisors, Rahm Emanuel, added this gem to political wisdom:…
From My Quotes Cupboard – Krupp
Maddened, Alfred struck back with a plan to silence all his enemies. At first they were indeed speechless. Had he gone through with it, he too would have been silenced…
From my Quotes Cupboard – Russia
Mecklenburg was small and weak and needed a powerful protector; marriage to a Russian princess would bring the Tsar’s support. Knowing that the two daughters of Tsar Ivan V were…
From My Quotes Cupboard – Teddy Roosevelt
Old Joe Cannon, Speaker of the House, has reservations about Roosevelts methods: “Roosevelt’s all right,” Cannon tells a friend, “but he’s got no more use for the Constitution than a…
Obama & Syria: A Rehearsal for Iran?
After Prime Minister David Cameron’s failure to bring along with him a majority of the MPs in the British Parliament, America has been reduced to vocal support from Germany (but…
The Duffy Deal: The PMO-Duffy Email and the Mounties
Hot on the trail of the Email The Mounties are as iconic Canadian as you can find. The Mounties always getting their man is so much part of the Canadian…
Global Warming and Coal: The Man who might save the Earth
Jim Yong Kim and Obama In a stunning move, the newly-elected President of the World Bank has launched one of the most significant steps in human history to reduce greenhouse…
The Duffy Deal: Persons having dealings with the government
Interesting articleby Crawford Kilian on the Sensitive and International Investigations unit of the RCMP affidavit (that unit is charged with investigating matters of significant risk to Canada’s political, economic and…
The Duffy Deal: Is PM Stephen Harper from Barcelona?
I know nothing! Poor Manuel, the harried waiter in Fawlty Towers, is often denigrated by Basil Fawlty with the words: “He’s from Barcelona”. Now we face an equally valid question:…
Egypt – Morsi to the General: "Can I leave the country?"
I appointed you … Fascinating report from a journalist who claims he heard the conversation between Generalal-Sisi and Morsi: “And if I don’t want to go?” Morsi inquired. “It’s a…
Egypt: How bad information cost Morsi his job
David Kirkpatrick has an interesting analysis in the New York Times about how badly Morsi miscalculated in the months and days leading up to his ouster as president of Egypt…
Senator Duffy: The Tory Big 5 who knew
The Duffy Deal: Up go the numbers The latest news from the RCMP is interesting – the number of people in the know about the Wrigh/Duffy agreement regarding his expenses…
Rupert Murdoch: And the lawyers just got rich going through millions of e-mails
Rupert Murdoch & Rebekha Brooks Read this secretly taped recording of a private meeting of Rupert Murdoch and about 25 people on the 10th floor of the newspaper’s headquarters in…