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MEDALS

Thursday, 29 October 2009 6:43 A GMT-08
 My morning rituals, the ingredients   Thank you Billy! The old inbox today reveals that there is a new medal proposed for those of us who served during "The Cold War" at Nato postings in Europe and remote areas of

SACRIFICES...

Tuesday, 27 October 2009 10:26 A GMT-08
First coffee drank, CBC1 on he sound track and a quick scan of the news sites, and a fit of sneezing. I see there has been a resignation of a senior US diplomat in Afghanistan because he claims that the US has no clear policy to conduct the war or fo

To those who oppose the Public Option in the USA, Cancer won't wait.

Monday, 26 October 2009 5:04 P GMT-08
Having just lost several friends and members of my family to the disease and being a cancer survivor myself what Lance has to say is vitally important. October 26, 2009 10:37 a.m. EDTSTORY HIGHLIGHTS    •    La

ONE OF THOSE DAYS

Monday, 26 October 2009 12:21 P GMT-08
 ONE OF THOSE DAYSi have nothing to doand all day todo iti have no whereto goand all day to get therei have nothingto seeand all day tolook at iti have nothingto listen toand all dayto hear itthe muse dances nakedin imaginationthe only imageon m

IT WAS EVER THUS...

Saturday, 24 October 2009 11:18 A GMT-08
I haven't had the chance to read Gen. Rick Hillier's book yet but according to the reviews its pretty explosive because he lays bare the problems of a  bureaucracy determined to never make a decision or choice that may come back to haunt

A LITTLE FUN, but you don't have to play if you don't want to

Friday, 23 October 2009 8:23 A GMT-08
BUCKET LIST
 
*Please send back it will be fun!!!!!*Hit forward and place an X by all the things you've done and remove the X from the ones you haven't, then send to your friends (including me).  But clean it up first!! This is for

NOBEL "PEACE" PRIZE an alternative view

Thursday, 22 October 2009 10:14 A GMT-08
Nobel Prize for Evo Morales     By Fidel Castro     October 18, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- If Obama was awardedthe Nobel for winning the elections in a racist society despite his beingAfrican American

FALL COLOURS AND FULL BREED IDIOTS

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 1:45 P GMT-08
 Power outage  Coffee and a cow pie cookie     The airspace is full of helicopters busily flying around looking for terrorists, doesn't that make you feel safe and getting value for the one billion dollars

The new boss, same as the old boss...

Wednesday, 21 October 2009 7:58 A GMT-08
  The revolution eats its own, promises not kept and the reality that the new boss is the same as the old boss. Listening to the short wave Radio South Africa and the complaints from former fighters who have gained little or nothing from wi

JOY

Tuesday, 20 October 2009 5:59 A GMT-08
 JOYwe shared the streetfrom keefer to powelldown to the sunrise marketme, this grandfather, and the boythe grandfather  taciturn, slow and graveand the boy bouncing along with exuberant joyfull of questions and mischiefand i, the other gra

SKETCHES while waiting for my laundry to dry

Monday, 19 October 2009 10:50 A GMT-08
   Sketches, most of us photographers wish we were painters and people who could draw. Thank the fates for Photo Shop, its not perfect but its close and I'm not busy with my eraser rubbing out the marks I didn't mean to make, h

SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE SALTY TONGUE

Monday, 19 October 2009 7:45 A GMT-08
       Just like the old days shooting "grip and grins" or weddings I was back on the job. Didn't have to hang around my digs and got a very fine supper for my efforts. Ian and Marthe are off in Italy

REFLECTIONS ON A SALTY TONGUE

Saturday, 17 October 2009 11:28 A GMT-08
 Reflections in watercolour  Tools of the trade  Inside  Out  REFLECTIONS ON A "SALTY TONGUE"milessketches of spaincoffee in the tonguein out of the rainalmost too perfectan instant the photographerwa

ON THE STREET WHERE I LIVE

Friday, 16 October 2009 11:45 A GMT-08
 Not much information from the Dr. yesterday just more tests which I never seem to get any results from. Costco didn't have my prescription in stock and I'm waiting for a call from them. Got out to the Tongue this morning and had a three

CROSSROADS

Thursday, 15 October 2009 1:00 A GMT-08
 WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?John Lee Hooker CROSSROADS 15/10/2009/00:57 hrs.WWOZ on the sound track and another night of being unable to sleep. Have an appointment with Dr. Feng at 11:30 this morning. I'm making a list of my ailments an

BURSTING THE BUBBLE ZONE

Wednesday, 14 October 2009 12:02 P GMT-08
Vancouver Sun                                       &nb

BEHIND THE LAUGHTER

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 6:35 P GMT-08
THINK BEFORE YOU LAUGH. and article in my in box from good friend Kenny "V".    New York Times                      

MELATONIN AND DREAMS

Tuesday, 13 October 2009 5:12 A GMT-08
 GET A ROOM   Have been taking melatonin to help me sleep and it has triggered a series of very erotic dreams in technicolor. Last nights dream was so realistic it didn't seem like a dream.The dreams started with me arriving t

BUS STOP

Monday, 12 October 2009 6:20 P GMT-08
 BUS STOPlight reflectingpeople walkingpeople waitingpeople beggingthe trees across the street goldenthe sky so blue it hurtsthe mini mart yellowwith the faint promise of lotteries everywherethe urban rush of the self indulgentlone in their SUVs

MURPHY'S THANKSGIVING

Monday, 12 October 2009 6:27 A GMT-08
 STARVING, ADDICTED, OR CRAZYTAKE YOUR PICK You have to know it, Jim and I missed each other at King George's yesterday he was waiting at the Park and Ride and I was waiting at the Pick up and Drop which are not in sight of each other.

RITUALS

Sunday, 11 October 2009 9:15 A GMT-08
 The winning goal, Portland Hotel Society 5City Hall 4  Goalmouth scramble  More goalmouth action  Portland Hotel Society team pictures  Mayor Gregor Robertson surrounded by members of both teams. Eve

PHOTO SHOP THIS

Saturday, 10 October 2009 5:55 A GMT-08
First there was the lie, then there was the photo of the lie, then there was the statistic of the lie, then there was the fear caused by the lie, then there was the war and the support the troops lie, then there was the silent defeat and withdrawal,&

ARTS AND CRAFTS for the Vancouver Winter (anti) Olympics

Friday, 9 October 2009 1:56 A GMT-08
  ARTS AND CRAFTS FOR THE VANCOUVER WINTER OLYMPICSLets have a contest to design and anti Olympic T shirt and ball caps and or sweat bands or shorts with ban the Olympics across the butt. Send any of your designs to this blog site make sure

SEARS CANADA BOYCOTT update

Thursday, 8 October 2009 8:35 P GMT-08
 MY NOMINATION FOR THE UGLIEST BUILDING IN DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER Sears Canada Boycott update?Sears Canada call centre for catalogue orders in Regina, Sk closed on Sept. 17/09. That left 250 people out of jobs. The call centre in Bellevill

JUST SUPPOSE, anti free speech act to be enacted by B.C. Legislature

Thursday, 8 October 2009 11:42 A GMT-08
This is the proposed law before the B.C. legislature to stifle free speech and anti-Olympic signs during the month leading up to and including the month of the games. It would allow officials to enter your property and remove or cover any anti Olympi