Trapped in Suburbia…

a blog by Rafael Gomez

Me

IT guy, code monkey, husband, father, target shooter, but unfortunately not independently wealthy.


Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Spousal Abuse and Firearms.

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

I don’t often post related to firearms but the recent spate of letters and comments in the press from the Coalition for Gun Control and the Canadian Chiefs of Police has been getting on my nerves. While they might like to claim that the gun registry is necessary for the safety of women the fact [...]

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We will remember.

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In [...]

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Hiatus … Part Deux.

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was blogging about how I was “back” from taking a break. Here I am again…. Unfortunately a family tragedy struck us back in March, and it’s taken until now for things to start to get back to normal. I’d like to thank everyone who sent me notes [...]

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Back from hiatus…

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

I’ve been terribly busy, and things on the political front have been fairly dull. Now that parliament is about to get back to business I’ve decided its time to crawl back out of the woodwork.

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A debt worth repaying.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Two minutes. At the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month. Its a trifling sum to pay for the countless ranks of Canada’s sons and daughters in distant graveyards and under forgotten battlefields. But it is, remarkably, the only price asked for such monumental sacrifice. Every year the dwindling ranks of veterans [...]

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