Search results

Say "Happy Bithday, Colpy". Today, October 26, 2006, I am 52 years old. (groan)

Five months into this fiscal year, the Feds are already showing a $6.7 billion surplus. Geez, remember all that pre-election babble about how the Conservatives would break the country? Sure doesn't appear that way. Good stuff. Paying down debt should be a priority of any government.

It turns out the LIberal leadership race might get interesting after all. Ignatieff appears to be in the lead, but without enough to take it on the first ballot, and no secondary support. Bob Rae appears to be in second place, but he is the second choice of a large number of voters, he is...

Okay folks, I went crazy. I got thinking about the insistence of the anti-gun folks that we don't want to be like the AMERICANS, with no gun control, and blood running in the streets! I had read that murder was so high in American ghettoes that it skewed national figures, as (obviously) there...

Well, I knew it would happen. On another thread, the issue of gun control raised its ugly head. This was a completely understandable reaction to the Dawson College shootings, and I thought it desrved its own thread. So here we go. BTW, I'm an unapologetic gun nut. I own every type of weapon...

As I write this there is a very unpleasant situation unfolding in Montreal. At least one gunman has invaded Dawson College, a school for pre-university students (a private school, I suspect) At least four people have been shot, and one gunman is down. The question is are there more? There...

I'm on vacation. I'm not doing anything significant, so I packed up a lunch, and a rifle, and my wife and I headed for a friend's camp. It is wonderful to live in country like this. Drive for half an hour, park on the side of the road, step into the bush. Instant wild. It is truely amazing...

New information has been gained from Palestinian youths held in Ofer prison, an Israeli jail for Palestinians just outside Ramallah. Ofer has come under fire from human-rights groups alleging the torture and mistreatment of detainees. The prison was the site of large scale riots late last...

Well, it seems Joe Volpe, contender for the leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada, is exceptionally well-suited for that position. Under new rules for contributions to political campaigns, it is illegal to make a contribution in someone elses's name, or to supply money to someone for...

According to CTV News this evening, the Federal long gun registry will be castrated tomorrow. Oh, the Joy! Stockwell Day will announce a blanket, long-term amnesty for all long guns, thus effectively by-passing the registry while the government dismantles it. Responsibility for the...

I am constantly sickened by the folks on this forum who defend Iran and their quest for nuclear weapons, especially when they use the argument "the USA has thousands of nukes, so what if Iran wants a few. They are not so bad as the USA". Recently, I have been reading a bit about Iran. I...

I haven't posted here much lately, I have been a little pre-occupied. Now I'm going to be away for a week, taking a course necessary for my new job as firearms trainer for my armoured car company. When I get back, I'll be back.

This is the eulogy I gave yesterday for my good friend, who died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 51. I don't kow why I'm putting it here, maybe I'd just like more people to know him, and to be sorry he is gone.

Once, at a summit during World War Two, someone mentioned De Gaulle, who was famous for being a prima donna. Winston Churchill replied "Don't mention de Gaulle. We call him "Joan of Arc" and are desperately searcing for a couple of Bishops willing to burn him." TRUE STORY When I took...

RE: You must help. Garbage. First of all, despite what the con artists of the Animal Rights movement tell you, we don't kill baby seals. It is illegal to kill whitecoats. The folks you see on there cuddling little white seals with big brown eyes do so only because it inspires you to send...

From a column by Lorne Gunther in today's National Post. And we are about to find out the systen cost almost TWO billion dollars in total. Dump it.

So, we've all heard of the latest trouble for the Liberal Party. The RCMP is conducting a criminal investigation into the possibility that insider trading took place on Investment Trusts just before Goodale made an announcement about them not being taxed. The allegation is that there was a...

Now here's a personal pet peeve: Why are we coddling the Khadr family? These people have engaged in acts of sedition, if not treason, against Canada. They supported the Taliban and Osama bin Laden by raising money, acting as instructor at terror training camps, and attacking American...

Turns out the armoured car robbery in Montreal on Sept. 7 netted the perps $35 million. The largest robbery in Canadian history. Nobody killed, thank God. Now that's a buck or two. An inside job is suspected (believe me, it would have to be.........we don't usually carry that kind of cash)...

From the National Post: "A $12.1 billion proposal to fast track the purchase of badly needed new planes for the Canadian Air Force has fallen victim to aggessive lobbying by Canadian Aerospace firms..... The plan, which would cut five to ten years from the process of buying 50 new transport...