SHOULD THE PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS BE RESTORED?

It did not take President Obama long to “meddle” in the internal affairs of Honduras.  He says Zelaya should be restored to power pronto.
Why would Obama move so quickly on the Honduran crisis when he delayed so long on the crisis in Iran?
Can you think of a good reason?

DID BERNIE MADOFF GET HIS JUST DESSERTS?

This morning Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison.  (His lawyers had asked for 12 years.
Madoff is 71 and his life expectancy is 13 years.  So Madoff will never see the light of day again and will die in prison.
The judge said his crime was “extraordinarily evil”.  I n the biggest fraud in American history,    s$65 [...]

ARE GUNS A GOD-GIVEN RIGHT?

What is it with Ameri cans and guns?
Today Rev. Ken Pagano, pastor of the New Bethel church in lLouisville, Kentuckey, invited his congregation to bring their guns into the sanctuery month ary.  Rev. Pagano says “God and guns are part of the foundation of this country.
When Prtesident Obama was elected in November, federal instant background [...]

DOES MICHAEL JACKSON DESERVE ALL THE FUSS?

When new broke of the sudden and unexpected deatyh of Michael Jackson, cable channels went to wall to wall coverage of the King of Pop.  Even the National led with the news.
I must confess I was never into Jackson’s music.  Which I guess says more about my defincencies than it does about Jackson.  Frankly I [...]

SHOULD GOVERNOR SANFORD RESIGN?

Yesterday Soputh Carolina governor, Mark Sanford, admiited at a press conference that he had been unfaithful to his wife with a woman named Maria from Argentina.   The governor announced that he would resign from directing the Republican Governors group but he refused to answer questions about whether he would remain asa governor.
This is the second [...]

IS QUEBEC WORTH CELEBRATING?

Today  I went with a friend to Cora’s for brunch to celebrate Quebec’s fete nationale.
Does anyone in his or her right mind really thinNo. k Canada would be a better country without Quebec?  No.
Do most people in this province think Quebec is a better place within Canada?  Absolutely.
In Que bec itself  French-English relations havbe evolved [...]

SHOULD THE U.S. BOARD THE NORTH KOREAN FREIGHTER?

The American armed frigate, the John  McCain is shadowing a North Korean ship carrying arm s, possibly small nuclear arms.  The ship is making its way to Burma and Singapore.  For it to be carrying arms is against U.N.  resolutions.
What should the United States do?
Some commentators, especially on Fox News, say Nosident Obamarth Korea’s Prtesident [...]

SHOULD LESBIANS CONCEIVE A CHILD FROM OTHER LESBIANS?

A group of British scientists has generated sperm from male embryonic stem cells that fertilized female mice and produced offspring.  The same group is now working on creating sperm from women’s bone marrow stem cells and is  expected to report its findinghs within weeks.
The leader of the group says the idea of a woman’s stem [...]

ARE THE MOLSONS GOOD FOR THE CANADIENS?

The American, George Gillett Jr., has sold the Canadiens hockey team to the Molson family for in excess  of half a billion dollars.  Most Habs fans seemed to be pleased that the team will now revert back to the Mols0n family which owned the team in its hey day in the fifties and sixties.
Not all [...]

SHOULD OBAMA KILL A FLY?

Have you seen the clip from MSNBC where Obama, while doing an interview, swats at a fly and kills it?
Some people are upset at this killing.  PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) charge that the President of the United States should not be killing an insect on cable teleevision.  All insects have the [...]