The Blog Fodder

Minding my own beeswax

2012-01-30T20:03:00.000+02:00

Number ONE son worked on a honey farm for 13 summers and a few winters too. The boss's wife, Queen Bee, was and still is a second mother to him. He was no drone, heading up the outdoor crew for most of those years. I never cared much for bees, not that I am allergic and break out in hives or anything, but I am fond of honey. We buy it in 3 liter jars and go through about three or four a year

Righteous Abortion: How Conservative Christianity Promotes What It Claims to Hate

2012-01-29T14:31:00.000+02:00

Righteous Abortion: How Conservative Christianity Promotes What It Claims to Hate http://new.exchristian.net/2012/01/righteous-abortion-how-conservative.html I shared a link to this on Facebook and got comments from two people. One of the paragraphs in the article stated that in The Netherlands abortion rates were 1/3 that of America per 1000 pregnancies because they "de-stigmatized sexual

Listening to the Old Songs

2012-01-28T19:36:00.000+02:00

Darren is in the Doghouse

2012-01-26T10:59:00.000+02:00

A Facebook friend of mine, we'll call him Darren because that's his name, posted this on his status yesterday. Too funny. His wife immediately countered that he was in the doghouse and his sister followed by posting the link to the JC Penny Doghouse ad, below. Which takes us to a whole new area. Gifts for women. Men will never understand why women aren't happy when they get some electronic

Tanya's Name Day

2012-01-25T21:02:00.000+02:00

Today, January 25th is the Feast Day of Saint Tatiana of Rome (January 12th on the Julian Calendar). It is also Robbie Burns Day so presumably the saint balances off the sinner. Saint Tatiana is venerated by Orthodox Churches (and possible others, I don't know). At any rate a complete list of her miraculous recovery from torture in 3rd century Rome can be found here. They would wail on her all

Next Year Country: "What the Hell do We Want Anyway?"

2012-01-24T12:29:00.000+02:00

This blog post very nicely sums up the aims of the Occupy Movement Next Year Country: "What the Hell do We Want Anyway?": John's Speech to Occupy Regina on 22 October 2011 By John F. Conway January 23, 2012. Some very powerful and influential people are very, very unhappy with what you are doing and saying. John Manley, CEO of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives – the group which

Now is the Winter of our Desk Content*

2012-01-23T19:17:00.001+02:00

* or as Peter Sellers might have said, Snow fuel like an old fuel. We have snow. All Ukraine has snow. A great deal of snow. Three days worth, at temperatures around 0C. Heavy, wet, heart-attack type snow. The news tonight showed Kyiv up to its armpits and Dnipropetrovs'k, too. Traffic bogged down everywhere. We went to town Friday for groceries and I was in town again on Saturday for

Ont. farmers urge halt to wind turbine development | Canadian Cattlemen

2012-01-23T18:01:00.000+02:00

Ont. farmers urge halt to wind turbine development | Canadian CattlemenIt looks like some folks are catching on that wind turbine generated electricity causes as many problems as it cures.

The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham

2012-01-22T17:49:00.000+02:00