I don’t know if the rest of the world has seen the TV pictures coming out of Grenada yet.
CTV has the only TV crew on the island which has been levelled by hurricane Ivan.
The damage is catastrophic. 50 thousand of the islands residents have no food, water or shelter. Yachts of the wintering wealthy are stacked and smashed like broken toys. There has been looting and lawlessness.
Parents are walking 20 miles through wreckage to try to find milk for their children. There is none.
Aid is arriving, but distribution is chaotic and unorganized.
Meantime Grenadian, Jamiacan, Cuban and Caymen Canadians can’t get through to relatives. Communites are banding together to send aid.
Ivan has ploughed through 11 countires. 70 people are dead.
Canadian Health Care
They decided to televise 10 hours of the three day health summit between the premiers and the federal government.
No one I knew was going to watch it. While the premiers were making their pitch on TV, the Prime Minister’s staff released it’s offer to the media in the hallway.
It’s an adversarial process that kind of got nipped in the bud. If the premiers grumble too much they will come across as churlish. The federal government threw out 28.6 billion in equalization payments and nearly 25 billion in new money. The proposal provides 10 years of ’stable’ money. Provinces are expected to spend 1 trillion in health care over the next 20 years.
Assualt Weapons
If you are a US citizen, as of midnight it is legal to own assualt weapons.
The 10 year ban lapses. I wouldn’t want to be a law enforcement officer in the US.
The law prohibited the manufacture and distribution of 19 kinds of semiautomatic firearms that can hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition while allowing such guns already in circulation to remain there.
The Department of Justice says seven percent of violent crime involved a firearm in 2003.
Canadian freed
The publisher of the Canadian military magazine, Esprit de Corps says he was kidnapped and held for five days in Iraq. Scott Taylor was in the country doing research for a book.
Holy Security Batman!
I see Batman went to Buckingham Palace. A ledge makes a big stage.
I guess if you are going to draw attention to your cause, a URL sign is useful.
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Thank you for insulting me in your ‘Labels’ blog so succinctly! That business is now out of the way, so we can go forward.
Query? In your view does the perceived ‘dismissive’ use of labels by a writer indicate the presence of a closed mind? Or could it just be a shorthand way of framing one’s comments?
I do listen to and respect others views. And even try to learn from them. It just bothers me to see so little reciprocity. But we try.
On another note, the expiration of the US’s so called federal “Assault Rifle Ban” is just a lot of fluff. Most states here still have [and enforce] far stricter laws. The old law was a ‘feel good’ political compromise that was virtually unenforced. Federal prosecuters almost always turned their ARB cases over to local authorities.
On the question of who in his/her right mind would ever want to use an ‘assault rifle’?, I can only state that our constitution’s second ammendment gives me the right to protect my family and home from varmits and intruders of all types, and scripture also seems to support that duty, so invader - watch out!
Is that a fitting attitude for a believer? Obviously I must use all other avenues available to me to avoid a bad situation. But when all else fails, I - like David with his sling - must be prepared to stand up to evil and protect my family and fiends - which might even include watching out for the interests of my northern neighbors.
Well hi.
I don’t know your screen name and addy, so I’m not clear on how you were insulted. There was no intent to harm - but if you felt you were harmed, let us know how.
**Query? In your view does the perceived ‘dismissive’ use of labels by a writer indicate the presence of a closed mind? Or could it just be a shorthand way of framing one’s comments?**
The shorthand of labels is not very useful for a writer if others can’t understand what the shorthand means. It can mean a lack of understanding of your readership and platform, or as you state, even a closed mind.
If you are writing for an inhouse organ, shorthand and labels have their place. That is - if the publication is meant to be exclusive. I don’t know that labels are very useful on blogs really if they are used for that purpose. I don’t think most people that label do so consciously. I think using some label use is lazy, but that is a personal decision.
Does that answer your question?
**On the question of who in his/her right mind would ever want to use an ‘assault rifle’?, I can only state that our constitution’s second ammendment gives me the right to protect my family and home from varmits and intruders of all types, and scripture also seems to support that duty, so invader - watch out!
Is that a fitting attitude for a believer? Obviously I must use all other avenues available to me to avoid a bad situation. But when all else fails, I - like David with his sling - must be prepared to stand up to evil and protect my family and fiends - which might even include watching out for the interests of my northern neighbors.**
If you want/need an assault weapon to defend your family, your law permits you to have one. If you chose a sling, your law permits a sling. Blog on!
Seven percent of violent crime may have involved a firearm, but columnist John Lott says:
“The banned guns were seldom used in crime to begin with. A 1995 Clinton administration study found that fewer than 1 percent of state and federal inmates carried ‘military-type’ semi-automatic guns (a much broader set of guns than those banned by the law) for crimes they committed during early 1990s before the ban. A similar 1997 survey showed no reduction in this type of crime gun after the ban.”
Read the rest… http://www.lewrockwell.com/lott/lott22.html
Okay.
I see you are blogging again Pieter.
Good luck with the paramedic course.