Category: Lifes Lessons
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Hearing of The Secret Service Director
Having caught snippets of the hearing this morning which dealt with the Trump assassination attempt I suspect there will be regrets in the handling of the matter. She should have been fired at the outset instead of putting her through a grilling which appeared more to serve the disappointment of elected officials than to extract…
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Cerebral Yet Delusional
It’s a perplexing phenomenon. We empathize with those who lack capacity but you’ve seen the ones who have been part of your company who on the surface have everything going on intellectually but then fail at logic when confronted with facts which contrast with their preferred ideology. Objectivity is lost when facts conflict with philosophical…
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Back To Black – Amy Winehouse
While you were watching the Oilers win game seven, I was at the movies taking in the tragic life of Amy Winehouse at Chinook Theatre. The best part was the phenomenal job done by Marisa Abela in the role. You really did pick up the veracity in Amy’s outlandish visceral personality but more astonishingly was…
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Fighting In Hockey And Chris Simon
The business model was to hire an “enforcer” to protect the talented sharp shooter. A side show would arise where crowds would rise to their feet cheering for the home town brute in a fight sometimes planned and oftentimes instigated by the mildest of infractions. There was this theory promulgated by the Don Cherrys of…
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Survey Suggesting Canadians Are Strapped Financially
A survey from the National Payroll Institute published today reports that 37 per cent of Canadians are “financially stressed”. I like the term “strapped” which has a another kind of connotation. Even more startling is that the figure is up from 17 per cent last year. Given some behavioural patterns that I’ve witnessed lately whether…