IT guy, code monkey, husband, father, target shooter, but unfortunately not independently wealthy.
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 [...]
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 Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To [...]
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 of [...]
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.
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 turn out [...]
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