Yesterday was the inauguration of Obama and as people will know I wasn’t really interested in watching it as I want to judge him by his actions rather than his pretty speeches. So today was his “first day on the job” so to speak, or his first full working day as President. How is he [...]
Jan
19
Bob May
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Seems like so many good people are dying right now. Over the weekend it was famous TV artist Tony Hart and today is was Bob May. Bob May played the Robot, often known at B-9, on the Lost in Space TV series. Bob controlled the Robot from the inside, how he fit into that small [...]
Jan
18
Obama Inauguration Concert Controversy
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There is growing controversy over the Obama Inauguration Concert today. First homophobe Rick Warren was chosen to speak at Obama’s inauguration and then later on gay Bishop Gene Robinson was bought on board to speak/give a prayer at Obama’s Inauguration Concert (maybe in reaction to the Warren outrage). Now today Gene Robinson’s speech/prayer at the [...]
Jan
15
Do Tumblers Save The Environment?
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They are called Tumblers in North America but in the UK we would call them mugs. Many people seem to carry around these metal tumblers, they go into their favorite coffee store and have their drink lobbed in them. But do they save the environment? In Canada and US there is an incentive to use [...]
Jan
14
UAFA and the 111th Congress
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Immigration Equality are certainly all fired up and keen to go taken the Uniting American Families Act forward with the 111th Congress and made positive comments in their latest blog entry. Currently the Act is in limbo land until they decide to re-introduce it into the current congress. In the 110th Congress they got impressive [...]
Jan
13
Obama Sucking Up to the Gays?
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Obama came under a lot of criticism recently for asking homophobe Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration on the 20th November. Is Obama coming to his senses after making that very poor decision? Lets just remind ourselves that Rick Warren supported the passage of Proposition 8 and said that gay marriage was [...]
Jan
11
UK Recession
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Not long after we left the London it seems as though the country has got rather unpleasant financial problems. I don’t think it would have affected us since we were both in secure public sector jobs. Its so serious that even the BBC has devoted a whole section of their website on it called Downturn. [...]
Jan
10
Getting Over the Bad News
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The past few days have not been easy with a whole bunch of bad news. First, my friend of 30 years died on my birthday, on the same day as her funeral another friend of ours died – Don had known her for over 20 years. On the day that it was due to be [...]
Jan
7
Yet Another Death
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Cannot believe the amount of bad news lately. It wasn’t a very good end of 2008 when I heard that my friend of 30 years had died. On the same day as her funeral, today, we heard that another friend had died. Dotty was our adopted Jewish mother. Don had known her for many years [...]
Jan
3
The Next Doctor Who
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Really taken by surprise this morning when I checked the BBC news which said it was going to announce the new Doctor Who to replace David Tennant. Later on today they said it would be Matt Smith. I thought that they would have surprised everyone until the very last moment. Anyway, I have read quite [...]
Jan
2
Christmas and New Year
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Didn’t feel that I got the rest I needed over Christmas and New Year’s, I feel even more tired than I did before. Work and traveling to/from Burnaby was getting me down especially with the snow which I don’t do too well in anyhow….where ever I am! It was a very busy year and could [...]