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I’d Scream in Frustration if I thought it would help.

Posted on May 24, 2018 by

I’m well aware that many Americans thought badly of Obamacare. I’m also aware that many more Americans found it a lifeline. It would have been a whole lot better had the GOP not blocked so much all the way through. … Continue reading →

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Destabilisation.

Posted on May 9, 2018 by

It was one of those very rare occasions when the majority of the World’s powers came together in agreement. It was not a good idea for Iran to have the capacity and the equipment to build a nuclear weapon. An … Continue reading →

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A day’s thinking

Posted on March 30, 2018 by

This Friday 30th March 2018 I spent the day almost incapable of speaking to anyone, and I certainly didn’t want too. It’s the 5th anniversary of my wife’s death. Though I seem to have willed the glumness on despite all … Continue reading →

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Native American Rules to Live By.

Posted on February 19, 2018 by

I was reading a post today by Elfidd at As the Rooster Crows  https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?hl=en#inbox/161aef79d8782cbb Every great person, despite their culture, religion, tribe, or ethnicity, believes in certain words of wisdom.Those words transcend the differences among people. This code of living … Continue reading →

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The Christmas Approach.

Posted on December 14, 2017 by

Once again we approach a Christmas. We are just over a week away and most people are starting to get a bit mellow. Perhaps a Christmas party or two to attend with work and gatherings with friends and family. On … Continue reading →

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Remembrance

Posted on November 10, 2017 by

Tomorrow on the eleventh day of the eleven month at the eleventh hour many countries will hold 2 minutes of silence in honour of the fallen of World War I  or as it was known 99 years ago The Great … Continue reading →

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What is Happening?

Posted on October 2, 2017 by

Many people like me were stunned to wake up this morning to hear of the newest, worst killings yet, over in Las Vegas. There have been rumours all day about the who and the why, no doubt many of them … Continue reading →

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True Colours

Posted on August 17, 2017 by

At last this week Donald Trump showed his true colours. Whilst mobs of KKK and alt-right White Supremacists roared and fought their way round Charlottesville last weekend he refused to condemn them, instead comparing the hatemongers with the protesters against … Continue reading →

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In Flanders Field

Posted on July 31, 2017 by

by John McCrae, May 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the … Continue reading →

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I protest #InternationalChildrensDay

Posted on June 1, 2017 by

Originally posted on Sue Vincent's Daily Echo:
I protest. I protest against the poverty and hunger in which so many children are forced to live by failing societies where greed is an economic norm. In the UK, alone, one…

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