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The New Taliban?

10 years after the world saw the treatment of Afghan women as deplorable, it is happening again. The leadership of a nation is again forcing politics and religion to merge into one - and Tehran (capital of Iran) has sent a new message of opression to it’s people.
Fail to adhere to ridgid islamic dress […]

Statement of Fact

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Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’.

My child is the cutest kid in the history of procreation. I know - I know. It’s hard to accept for some of you. I’ll just let that go.

Facebook.com is the new Crack Cocaine

Firstly: Nerd warning.  This is not about drugs - it’s about technology.  Social Networking is a current Internets buzzword that describes tools on the intertubes that connect people together and permit communication with a broad audience.
It’s true I tell you.  This stuff is the internet equivalent of Crack.  (World of Warcraft is more like Meth […]

Jolly indeed

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Originally uploaded by ‘Scratch’.

Did you know (ok.. I didn’t and so I’m sharing this now…) that the Jolly Jumper - Fixture of Child Rearing for the last 50 years, is a CANADIAN invention?
(This text stolen happily from http://www.jollyjumper.com/History.aspx )
“Susan Olivia (Davis) Poole, a.k.a. Olivia was born in 1889 and died in 1975. She was part […]

Any day on the water..

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…is a good day.
Got away from the house on Sunday for a much needed break. I picked up Jeff and we headed to Calgary to fish the Bow River in town at Fish Creek park.
Not huge fish - but when you get to fish for brown trout, on dry flies, at […]