[Ed. note: Introspection is an attribute of a sober, focused mind. With it comes a humbling of the ego and an appreciation of one's innate humanity that Mr. Hale sums up in his final statement in his blog post: "...this is how I found out that we were never really as smart as we thought [...]
Archive for the ‘Great Folks’ Category
Hale: How We Nearly Lost Discovery
Posted in Great Folks, Life, Science, USA, tagged Columbia, Discovery, Houston, Katrina, Mission Control, NASA, Smithsonian, space, Space Shuttle on April 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Breitbart: Exclusive – Palin to Couric: ‘Game On’
Posted in Entertainment, Great Folks, Humour, Media, Politics, USA, tagged Katy Couric, MSNBC, NBC, Palin, Sara Palin, Today on April 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
[Ed. note: Ok, I'm calling this an April Fool's joke! Hosting a primetime flapfest on the most lefty network on TV. Sarah Palin? It will be entertaining, fer sure. She's been hinting on her facebook page that something was afoot. Aha! That's our girl -go get 'em Sarah!] Exclusive – Palin to Couric: ‘Game On’ [...]
Laframboise: The Royal Society’s blatherfest
Posted in Environment, Europe, Great Folks, Life, Media, Politics, Worldview, tagged AGW, CAGW, Cap and Trade, Carbon, Climate Change, Deniers, Environmentalism, freedom, Global Warming, Sceptics, Warmists, World Governance on March 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Royal Society’s Blatherfest by Donna Laframboise, March 24, 2012 A “major international conference” will begin on Monday in London. It’s being hosted by the Royal Society, the oldest science academy in the world and previously the most prestigious. But over the past decade the Royal Society has abandoned its longstanding neutrality and become a political [...]
People/Ben Flajnik: Final blog as The Batchelor
Posted in Entertainment, Great Folks, Humour, Media, USA, tagged Ben Flajnik, Courtney Robertson, Ensolve wines, Season 16, The Batchelor on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
[Ed. note: If you don't own a television, and never go out to buy groceries, you might be forgiven for not knowing what this story is about. Google The Batchelor Season 16 or run "Courtney Robertson" through Youtube... to get caught up. Or just go on with your own life...LOL] Ben Flajnik Writes Final Blog [...]
In the Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month of the Eleventh Year in a New Millennium – We Will Remember Them.
Posted in Africa, Asia, Canada, Eurasia, Great Folks, Worldview on November 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
” We will remember them.” Lt. Col. Dr. John McCrae, Guelph, Canada. Died January 28, 1918, while in active service in Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France.
Clois and Smallville – the deepest tv love story, ever?
Posted in Great Folks, Media on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Every once in a while, a young actress comes along who has the capacity to wrap you in a warmth of companionship and love through her acting, in a way that is without parallel in the modern tv/screen idiom. For the millennium decades, I think that actress is none other than the re-defined, re-invigorated, re-invented [...]
Kate Middleton: Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, Countess Strathearn, Baroness Carrickfergus
Posted in Commonwealth, Great Folks, Life, Worldview on May 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
… Her Royal Highness Princess William Arthur Phillip Louis, Mrs. Mountbatten-Windsor, and future Queen Consort of England, the British Isles and the Commonwealth. After a picture perfect, fairy tale wedding that followed a long and no doubt deeply introspective courtship, Britain (and Will!) has, I think, acquired a most regal, most beautiful, and entirely capable [...]
Hymowitz: Sarah Palin and the Battle for Feminism
Posted in Editorial, Great Folks, Life, Media, Politics, USA, Worldview on January 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sarah Palin and the Battle for Feminism by Kay S. Hymowitz City Journal Winter 2011 v21, no.1 The ex-governor and her Mama Grizzlies argue that the real women’s issue is our country’s fiscal future. When Sarah Palin took the podium in St. Paul to accept her nomination for the vice presidency in September 2008, [...]
Post Arizona: America’s Enduring Strength
Posted in Editorial, Great Folks, Life, Politics, USA on January 12, 2011 | 1 Comment »
What a real American class act looks and sounds like… by Sarah Palin on Wednesday, 12 January 2011 at 03:52 Please click here to view the video of this statement. Like millions of Americans I learned of the tragic events in Arizona on Saturday, and my heart broke for the innocent victims. No words can [...]
