Nov. 7: How to get depressed.
Sorry to be late with this. Writing this blog can be profoundly depressing. And it rather hit me on Monday. I hope I’m over it.___________________________________________________________ Here is a story we’ve…
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Nov. 3: Okay. Get mad at me.
We’ll begin with an old joke. (Nothing that follows it is at all funny.) It was about a newsflash that played over TV many years ago in Montreal. Terrible train…
Nov. 1: A fresh start?
As I ended the post of Oct. 30, I wrote of a sense of depression that writing these blogs has placed on me. And I think I’ve clarified it a…
Oct. 30: Our Fading Chances.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iraq-canadian-special-forces-suspended-1.4376244 Early in my teaching days, back when I thought history books told the truth, I used to teach that Canada became a commonweath nation in 1930, and so had…
Oct. 27: Why the ‘other side’ is always evil.
Would Canada torture people? You bet. The Canadian government cooperated fully with the U.S. forces in torturing Afghanistan prisoners. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/terrorism-torture-syria-canadians-1.3669425__________________________________________________________ Big oil companies get a free ride in Canada. Gee!…
Oct. 25: Let’s Think About Nov. 11 and Our War Dead.
Readers of this column who do not have access to the Brunswick News chain are missing a daily diet of pure idiocy. The latest star of this phenomenon is an…
Oct. 23: Hallelujah!
https://www.charismanews.com/politics/issues/64360-prophecy-the-madman-from-the-north-is-defeated The above item is the one President Trump’s spiritual advisor was referring to when he said God is telling the president that he has the go-ahead to kill Kim…
Oct. 20: The irving press as a blindfold.
The irving press of New Brunswick is great reading for the brain dead. The lead story for today is that a man who killed a girl thirty years ago is…
Oct. 18: An Angry Day
Today’s Moncton Times and Transcript had a columnist. today, who is the new champion of ignorance, pomposity, arrogance and self-importance. He’s Bill Whitelaw, president and CEO at JuneWarren-Nickle’s Energy Group.…
Oct. 16: We are all just people. Sorry about that.
I discovered the document below on the web. And it struck me that one could change the word Allah to God, and the word Muhammad to Jesus, and it would…
Oct. 11: Christian Terrorism
There was a (brief) pleasure in opening the pages of the irving press today. Norbert Cunningham has at last noticed that climate change is happening – and quickly. And I…
Oct. 9: Capitalism, Churches, and Us.
The first story is one that should come as no surprise. Big business behaved in the same way – and worse – during the great depression of the 1930s. As…
Oct. 6: An Ugly World.
On Thursday, our local papers went wild with indignation when it was officially revealed that a company called Atcon some years ago had hit the government (and the taxpayers) for…
Oct. 4: The news ain’t good.
In general, the history of the last seventy years or so is that the U.S. government, pushed by its business leaders, wants to conquer the world. The purpose is to…
October 2: 58 people killed at Las Vegas…
Oh, that means Muslim terrorists will never catch up to the rate at which Americans kill each other. 9/11 was the ultimate Muslim terrorist attack, killing some 3,000 Americans. But…
Oct. 1: The Sunday Sermonette
Long ago, when the world and I were young, I often preached at a mission church in Montreal’s red light district. Many of the hookers and gamblers of the district…
Sept. 29: Nuclear war. It’s now or never for the U.S.
(A reader has warned me that the web sites I list do not open up when readers click on them. Actually, they do; but it is a little awkward. Readers…
Sept. 25: To Market, to market…
To buy a fat hog.Home again, home again,Jigetty Jog. Back to all the excitement and insight of the Irving press. Today’s gem was an editorial saying that an oil pipeline…
The Decarie Report 2017-09-11 10:26:00
Yes. I know I have said twice that I am taking a break for two weeks. But the Saturday edition of the irving press was infuriating for its disregard of…
Sept. 8: News Is (should be) Fact
I know. I said I wouldn’t do another blog for a couple of weeks. And I am still going away on Monday. But I could not ignore the contempt that…