Nov. 29: Sunday odds and ends.
There was an item I forgot yesterday - in the story on how the New Brunswick government is going to cut costs, I didn't mention one of its targets -…
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Nov. 27:http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/its-a-moral-issue-david-suzuki-compares-oilsands-defenders-to-slave-traders
The National Post was founded by Conrad Black - one of the few people in this world who, with the most expensive of lawyers, could be sentenced to years in…
Nov. 27: Just a small town weekly…
There's nothing wrong with a small town weekly. Typically, they have just one reporter, maybe two, who covers very local events that are overlooked by daily papers. They have one…
Nov. 26: We live at a turning point in history….
....and it's not a good idea to live at a turning point in history.The fighting in the middle east has huge stakes for the U.S. and Russia. The U.S. has…
Nov. 25: It’s way to early to make guesses about Turkey.
The news from both sides after the downing of a Russian jet by Syrian aircraft is not only biased as it comes from both sides; it's also very confusing.For bias,…
Nov. 24: This may be late because……
..... I had prepared for a day of good news with the major players seemingly coming to an agreement to end the Syrian war. Then I read the news that…
Nov. 23: Trying again. Will this have real paragraphs?
Let's deal quickly with the Irving press. There isn't much to it. (This, I hope, is a new paragraph). A front page story is that Moncton drivers often don't stop…
Nov. 22: odd computer problems. Have I become a terrorist threat?
In recent days, I have suffered computer problems. Yesterday, it was the disappearance of my paragraph structure after I published my blog. I didn't notice it for a couple of…
Nov. 21: ….defiant Parisians mourn the dead….
What is defiant mourning? How can you tell it from regular mourning? And how can a reporter tell that millions of people are mourning defiantly (whatever defiantly mourning means?) Have…
Nov. 20: Brief explanation.
The real post for Nov. 20 is below this one. In the real November 20 post, I apoplogize for errors and for the tiny print in the post. For the…
`Nov. 20: Problems
Strange things have been happening to my computer in the last month. One of them is the tiny print on this page. All the problems are different, and all are…
Nov. 19: In Remembrance
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/surveillance-state-neil-macdonald-1.3325327During World War Two, Canadians were daily reminded they were fighting for the Five Freedoms. (Actually, these freedoms were from the US constitution, but we were assur...
Nov. 18:I don’t know where to start…..
Aha! I’m not the only crazy one. So is Pope Francis. Read his statement below. http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/pope-francis-a-pope-who-sees-a-wwiii-and-pleas-for-it-to-stop I could wish that the clowns who write sermonettes for the Irving press Faith…
Nov. 17: We are being set up.
It began with the biggest foreign policy disaster of recent times – the U.S. and British invasion of Iraq. We have never been told the truth about why this was…
Nov. 16: only the Irving press could….
…put out a trivial and boring newspaper today. So let’s save it until the end. I was quite shocked by CBC TV coverage of news of the Paris killings. It…
Nov. 15: Yes…
….the killings in Paris were terrible…. I watched Obama on TV as he extended his deepest sympathy to the people of France for what they had suffered. And I thought……
Nov. 14: The Paris killings.
I’m going to save comments on the Paris killings for tomorrow. It’s a difficult topic; and there are people who are going to intensely dislike what I have to say…
The Decarie Report 2015-11-13 11:42:00
I had hopes. The headline seemed to be about Moncton welcoming Syrian refugees. But it was really a pretty shallow story about all the things that have to be done.…
Nov.12: A very dangerous situation.
Why did Britain and the U.S. both announce very shortly after aRussian airliner crashed in Sinai that it was done by a bomb, and probably shipped aboard as luggage? Why…
Nov. 11: Things to think of on Nov. 11
The March of the Dead — Robert Service (Poem #980) The March of the Dead The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the…