In 1954, Ken-L Ration began honoring exceptional canines by awarding the Dog Hero Of The Year Award. The program is currently sponsored by Kibbles n' Bits. Let's have a look at the truly inspiring stories of some recent winners,

Woodie (Won In 1980)
A collie mix owned by Rae Anne Knitter of Cleveland, Woodie leapt off an eighty-foot cliff to rescue Knitter's fiance, Ray Thomas, from drowning. One afternoon, Rae Anne, Ray, and Woodie were walking along a nature trail in the Rocky River Reservation when Ray, an amateur photographer, decided to capture a spectacular view from atop a steep shale cliff. Rae Anne and Woodie waited on the path wihile Ray disappeared over the top of the hill. Suddenly, the usually well-behaved Woodie began twisting and tugging to escape from Rae Anne. She let go of Woodie, who raced ahead. When Rae Anne reached the rink she saw Ray lying unconscious in a stream eighty feet below. Woodie, who broke both hips in jumping down, was by his side, nudging Ray's face to keep it out of the water. Both Ray and Woodie survived.

King (Won In 1981)
On the morning of December 26, 1981, the Carlson family of Granite Falls, Washington, was asleep when a fire broke out in their utility room. King, a German shepard mix, was sleeping in the adjoining family room. Instead of escaping through a door that had been left open for him, King clawed and chewed his way through the plywood door that separated him from the utility room. Then he charged through the burning room into the bedroom where sixteen year old Pearl Carlson was sleeping. He woke her and the two rushed to her parent's bedroom to alert them. Howard Carlson had a lung condition and could not move as quickly as his wife and daughter, but King remained by him until the man was safely outside. King was badly burned on his paws, had a gash on his back, and splinters in his mouth, but made a full recovery.

Bo (Won In 1982)
Bo, A labrador retriever, was rafting on the Colorado River with a puppy named Dutchess and their owners, Laurie and Bob Roberts of Glenwood Springs, Colorado, when an eight-foot wave flipped the raft over. Rob and Dutchess were thrown free, but Laura and Bo were trapped underneath. Bo finally emerged, but then dived back under the raft. He reappeared towing Laurie by the hair. Once she was free of the raft, Laurie grabbed Bo's tail and let the dog pull her across the strong current to shore.

Villa (Won in 1983)
During a severe blizzard in Villas, New Jersey, eleven year old Andrea Anderson was blown into a large snowdrift about forty feet from her home. Disoriented, blinded by snow being blown by sixty-mile-an-hour winds, she began to scream for help. Villa, a one-year-old black Newfoundland puppy belonging to Mrs. Lynda Veit, heard Andrea's cries and, for the first time in her life, leapt over the five-foot-fence surrounding her run. Villa ran eighty feet to the snowdrift, found Andrea, and licked her face reassuringly. Then she circled the girl to clear the snow entrapping her. Once Andrea was free, Villa cleared a path for her through the blinding snow and led her to the front door of Andrea's house.

Leo (Won in 1984)
Leo, a four-year-old standard poodle from Hunt, Texas, was playing near the Guadalupe River with eleven-year-old Sean Callahan and Sean's nine-year-old sister, Erin. Suddenly, Leo and the two children stumbled upon a five-and-a-half foot diamondback rattlesnake. Leo lunged between the snake and Sean, allowing his young master to escape. Leo received six poisonous bites to the head. He almost died, but made a remarkable recovery.

Willy (Won in 1991)
Betty Souder of Los Alamos, New Mexico, was sleeping soundly when she was awakened by her nine-year old weimaraner, Willy. "I couldn't seem to wake up," she later recalled. But Willy persisted. When Souder finally stood, she felt dizzy and she noticed that Willy was weaving, too. Almost too weak to pick up the telephone, Souder finally managed to place a call to a freind. It turned out that a faulty furnace had leaked, filling the house with poisonous carbon monoxide gas. Had Souder slept a few minutes longer, she probably would not have been able to make her life-saving call.

I was listening to Walter Williams, a distinguished professor, talk about taxation for entitlement programs. He was talking to a woman who couldn’t understand his position on this issue so he tried to explain by asking her several questions. First he asked her if she was confronted on the street by a man with a gun in his hand and told to hand over all of the money she had (which was $200). Would she consider this theft? She answered yes. Then he said that the man took the $200 and gave it to some people on the street that he felt needed the money. Would she still consider his act theft? She said most definitely! Well how about if 200 people agreed with this guy’s actions would she still consider it theft? She said yes of course. So he said let’s say that 300,000 people agreed with the guy would you change your mind? She said no she wouldn’t. The reason you won’t change your mind, he said, is because of the act this guy committed to get the money not what his actions were afterwards. Well that is exactly what the government does when it takes money from you to give to other people that have not earned it. It doesn’t matter how many people agree or disagree with it the act is still theft. There are no provisions in the Constitution of the United States or in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada to allow this to happen and yet the Liberals and Socialists continue to perpetrate this fraud on its citizens year after year. Certainly it is agreed that some taxation for infrastructure, roads and basic laws to maintain a legal and open society is necessary. But it is ludicrous to think that there is a requirement set forth by our founding fathers that the redistribution of wealth by way of taking from those that earn and giving to those that do not. If the people that want to give to those they feel need help that is fine, but it should be an individual choice not a mandate supported by a threat of incarceration. It would seem to me that a sharp lawyer could make a case before the Supreme Court of either Country that taxation for the purposes of taking from one is pure unadulterated theft if its sole purpose is to give it to someone else. In fact I would submit that if all of the monies given to charities and half of the money doled out in foreign aid were to be directed to our now bloated entitlement programs there would be no need to tax people who have earned their wages and have a right to keep them. If you believe in this simple logic the left will immediately call you heartless, racist, etc . Then they will say that if we don’t give these people a minimum amount to survive they will have to rob and steal to get money to live. In other words we, the government will steal the money from you on behalf of these people so it can be done in a civilized manner. It really is this simple. Through history wherever this logic has prevailed in its purest sense the governments who follow the template inherently fail without exception. In fact China, a country that was floundering 20 years ago has embarked on a new philosophy by allowing some capitalistic ideals within their boundaries and has reaped the wealth and prosperity that inevitably follows. Burn or erase this document immediately after it’s read to make sure the IRS Internal Robbery Service doesn’t get its hands on it.

Mibba March 17th, 2009
Simply ask anyone on the street and they will tell you that recycling is essential for the environment, that we are running out of landfill space, recycling saves money, and that recycling creates a feeling of accomplishment. Sometimes, it isn’t a good idea to completely trust people with everything that they tell you.
One of the most used arguments is that recycling is essential for the planet’s survival, and that since it saves resources, it is vital to the prosperity of the people of the Earth. However, recycling, for the most part and on the contrary, doesn’t save resources, it uses them. We must realize that recycling itself is a manufacturing process. It uses resources. For example, consider paper: this is the cornerstone of the recycling movement. Paper is one of the many products that people always agree is a good thing to recycle. But do they know how paper is recycled? First, there is a truck. This truck takes the paper and transports it. But by doing so it creates gasses that pollute the environment. This transported paper is then put into another truck, and taken to the recycling center. This place again uses resources and creates real polluting smoke. More paper still is put into another truck and shipped to a paper mill.
This paper is then de-inked and bleached. This process leaves by-products that leave behind a scum-like chemical sludge that again is difficult to remove and dispose of correctly. Then this new paper pulp that is created is put into machines that give out even more polluting substances. So the only way to really save paper and protect the environment is to read the same print material over and over again, day after day after day. People think that we need to recycle paper. This isn’t true. One of the main arguments of this branch of recycling is that we are running out of trees. In America, there is three times the amount of trees as there was in 1920. Also, most of the trees that we use for paper come from tree farms using what is called virgin pulp. Want more trees? Then we must waste more paper. The idea is same with potato chips. People eat potato chips so we grow potatoes to make potato chips; virgin potato chips.
Recycling plastics creates fleece. Industry uses this to create bags, clothes, new bottles and so on. But the truth is that better quality and less expensive variations of these things can be made if we start straight from the beginning.
But there is a good side to all of this. There are many benefits to recycling aluminum cans. This recycling is good because there is real money in aluminum. People are already going through other people’s trash looking for cans. By recycling cans you can save enough energy to run the television for 3 hours. 95% less energy is used to turn old cans into new ones and cans are recyclable indefinitely.
Another thing that recycling advocates always claim is that we are running out of landfill space. The former EPA Administrator, Jay Winston Porter wrote something called An Agenda for Action. In it he said, “We’re running out of places to dispose our trash”, “one third of the nation’s landfills will be full within the next few years,” “if we wait the problem will get worse”, and “recycling is absolutely vital”. A landfill that is just 35 miles on each side and 200 feet high will contain about 1000 years worth of trash at the present rate of disposal. The risks of disaster a modern day landfill right now, according to EPA data, extremely low. These landfills have to comply with strict government regulations.
They have to be away from groundwater, they have to be protected from earthquakes, and they have to have a layer of impermeable clay at least 3 feet deep underneath them. The Puente Hills Landfill has about 7-8 layers of clay, gravel, and pipe systems all with protecting groundwater in mind. Once everything is buried, it will be covered over and something else will be built on it, for example a golf course or a community center or a park. The methane that is created when organic products decompose is collected and used to create energy for homes. The Puente Hills Landfill produces enough methane gas to power 60,000 homes with electricity for at least the next 30 years.
“It saves money” is something that recycling advocates say. It costs some local governments about $50 a ton to just dump it into a landfill. It takes the same government about $150 a ton to recycle. It takes triple the amount of money to recycle than to dump it into a landfill. Besides, according to the New York Department of Sanitation, 40% of what people recycle ultimately ends up in the same landfill.
The only argument left is that recycling feels good and there have been studies about this. It is a psychological thing: people feel good when they recycle. Feeling good is a good enough reason to do most anything. But if you want to feel good while doing something stupid, then maybe crystal meth or heroin could be good for you.
“Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America, a waste of time and money, a waste of human and natural resources” (New York Times). We are told since elementary school that recycling is great and because of this misinformation, people love to recycle. If we take our facts from myth, it is very likely that we will make wrong decisions. Recycling things (other than cans) can be good. People wear hand-me-downs, salvage parts from one thing and use it in another, burn used paper for heat, and turn old shirts into rags. These practices are good, but the moment recycling becomes obsessive and we think that we must recycle everything, that’s when recycling becomes harmful.

The first documented use of an evergreen tree in a Christmas celebration was in Riga, Latvia, in the year 1510. The legend says that the first Riga tree was decorated with paper flowers and burnt on the bonfire after the ceremony. In that period, the guilds started erecting Christmas trees in front of their guildhalls: Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann (Marburg professor of European ethnology) found a Bremen guild chronicle of 1570 which reports how a small tree was decorated with "apples, nuts, dates, pretzels and paper flowers" and erected in the guild-house, for the benefit of the guild members' children, who collected the dainties on Christmas Day.[6] Another early reference is from Basel, where the tailor apprentices carried around town a tree decorated with apples and cheese in 1597.

This coming December 25th most parents will be lying to their children about old St. Nick. Some of us will be celebrating the birth of our Savior. But was he really born on this day?Was Jesus really born on December 25th? Virtually every month on the calendar has been proposed by biblical scholars. So why do we celebrate his birth in December?The tradition for December 25th is actually quite ancient. Hippolytus, in the second century A.D., argued that this was Christ's birthday. Meanwhile, in the eastern Church, January 6th was the date followed.But in the fourth century, John Chrysostom argued that December 25th was the correct date and from that day till now, the Church in the East, as well as the West, has observed the 25th of December as the official date of
Christ's birth.

Christian tradition states that magians visited the infant Jesus shortly after his birth. This tradition originates from the Gospel of Matthew (2:1-2:12). The twelve verses describe how certain magians from the east were notified of the birth of a king in Judea by the appearance of a star. Upon their arrival in Jerusalem, they visited King Herod to determine the location of where the king of the Jews had been born. Herod, disturbed, told them that he had not heard of the child, but informed them of a prophecy that the baby Jesus would be born in Bethlehem. He then asked the magians to inform him when they find the infant so that Herod may also worship him. Guided by the Star of Bethlehem, the wise men found the baby Jesus in a house in Bethlehem, worshiped him, and presented him with "gifts of gold and of frankincense and of myrrh." (2.11) In a dream they are warned not to return to Herod, and therefore return to their homes by taking another route. Since its composition in the late 1st century, numerous apocryphal stories have embellished the gospel's account.

Joseph's betrothal to Mary, made her his wife according to Jewish law. The clarification has been added that they were not yet living together, from which follows that they had not yet conducted the wedding rite known as the "home taking", which is the legal ceremony that permits Jewish couples to begin conjugal relations. The first event related in some detail is Joseph's dream, during which he is told by "an angel of the Lord" not only to take Mary as his wife, but also to name the first son from her Jesus, hence to assume legal paternity. The first command Joseph carries out, apparently promptly, the second in due time.
The next event is Joseph's journey from Nazareth to Bethlehem to be enrolled as required by the Roman political authorities. He is accompanied by Mary who is pregnant and who, whilst they are at Bethlehem, gives birth to Jesus. Thereafter Joseph and his family are visited by a group of shepherds saying that they have been guided to them by an angel who told them the good news and its implications. Eight days later, at the boy's circumcision – as the angel had told Joseph when he commanded him to take Mary home –, Joseph names him Jesus, and thus assumes legal paternity.[13] Wise Men from the east came to Jerusalem to "adore the Child." [14]Shortly thereafter, after completion of the post-natal cleansing prescribed by the Law of Moses, Joseph takes Mary and Jesus to the Temple in Jerusalem to offer the sacrifices required on the occasion of the birth of a couple's first son. Whilst doing so, he and his wife receive a blessing from the aged "just man" Simeon and listen to his words and those of the prophetess Anna – two people who have been waiting eagerly for the salvation of their nation and perceive now the significance of the child before them.

Saint Nicholas of Myra is the primary inspiration for the Christian figure of Santa Claus. He was a 4th-century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in Lycia, a province of the Byzantine Anatolia, now in Turkey. Nicholas was famous for his generous gifts to the poor, in particular presenting the three impoverished daughters of a pious Christian with dowries so that they would not have to become prostitutes. He was very religious from an early age and devoted his life entirely to Christianity. In Europe (more precisely the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Germany) he is still portrayed as a bearded bishop in canonical robes. In 1087, the Italian city of Bari, wanting to enter the profitable pilgrimage industry of the times, mounted an expedition to locate the tomb of the Christian Saint and procure the remains. The reliquary of St. Nicholas was desecrated by Italian sailors and the spoils, including his relics, taken to Bari, where they are kept to this day. A basilica was constructed the same year to store the loot and the area became a pilgrimage site for the devout, thus justifying the economic cost of the expedition. Irish historians say that his remains were moved on again from Italy to Jerpoint Abbey in County Kilkenny, where his grave can still be seen.[12] Saint Nicholas became claimed as a patron saint of many diverse groups, from archers and children to pawnbrokers. He is also the patron saint of both Amsterdam and Moscow.

Answer Dick Grayson

What was the name of the character in "Have Gun Will Travel"?

As a conservative thinker I have steadfastly made my position known regarding our flawed welfare system and the relentless practice of Liberal and Socialist types of throwing cash at every problem facing the poor. I believe and I think most common sense folks would agree that we must always help the less fortunate in our society if they truly need and want our assistance. But this help should be first directed at those that are either unable (either physically or mentally) to care for themselves. Then we should look to those that find themselves in dire circumstances but are willing and able to accept help with the desire to get back on their feet. The objective should always be to help return them to self sufficiency not to learn to survive on the dole. Every once and awhile you read a story in the papers about a person who has ended up on the streets and needs help to get back into society. Every time it seems that someone or some group of people step up to the plate and offer assistance in the short term and what is more helpful, a job or an opportunity to better themselves on the road to a reasonable future. It is with these two categories of people that we need to direct our money and efforts towards. I remember years ago when I would go down to the Scott Mission to serve meals to the homeless and poor during the Christmas season. I would talk to some of these folks and I always wondered why they never seemed enthusiastic about changing their lifestyle. Eventually it occurred to me that many of them chose to live on the streets for a variety of reasons, many I`m sure that may not seem plausible to you or me but never the less they were adamant that it was their choice. We on the other hand were facilitating their choice and because we focussed on them we have built up a bureaucracy around caring for their type and their type only. The millions and millions that are poured into the homeless programs rarely cover more than the basic needs for shelter and food. If we were to think about the true meaning of Christmas and caring for the weak and needy we would focus our efforts towards those that truly can`t help themselves, as mentioned above, and then those that want help that will lead to a life off the streets and out of the shelters for good. Turn the funding over to volunteer citizens that will find these people and help them out of a lifetime of poverty and government handouts. Two things would happen. First, those that choose to live on the street will move on to other city`s if they can`t get the regular dole here. This of course will bring down the number of homeless and secondly those that accept the hand up will eventually leave the streets for a better life. This again will reduce the numbers of folks on the streets. This type of system will take a little more work but I bet you will get more volunteers than you think. People will stand up to help if it appears these folks will really be aided and not just given a few bread crumbs so the elite can go home and feel guilt free because they have `helped``. Massive infrastructure, massive spending and gigantic giveaway programs don`t work as we have seen over the past 40 years. The problem just gets bigger and bigger and as the old saying goes, ``if you keep doing what you have always done, you will keep getting what you have always gotten``. Forget the platitudes and the political mumbo jumbo let`s try to really solve this problem with the true Christmas spirit.

I recently purchased a DVD album with 55 episodes of old Cowboy TV shows with stars such as the Lone Ranger, Buffalo Bill and Rowdy Yates along with many more. After viewing a few Lone Ranger shows it occurred to me that as we traveled through the decades our society has gained so much knowledge and technology but at what price? These old shows just overflowed with moral lessons regardless if there was violence or not. When two guys got into a fight it usually pitted good vs bad and it was always easy to identify the hero. The story lines were usually simple and easy to follow and so as a youngster I could run outside after the show and immediately become the “masked man”. On the downside the simplicity of these shows were also their downfall as special effects started to edge its way onto TV and all of the sudden the written word and a guy dropping to ground after being shot didn’t carry as much impact as a profanity laced tirade coupled with a gunshot to the head that spewed blood all over the place. Respect for your foe became extinct and even the friends were not to be trusted. All the TV producers scrambled to get more and more so-called reality into their shows through special effects and realism that the idea of a good script and a good story dropped by the wayside. Deadly violence became a necessity because without it you wouldn’t be able to see the wound and the seeping blood, or the piece of skull flying off with the buckshot. Don’t get me wrong though, because I’m not suggesting that TV and movies create killers and violent morons as some are want to do. This is just a convenient way to explain away mass killers. What I do think it has done, however is to accelerate the growth of our children. I would submit that with the technology today and the overload of information on the TV shows that these kids are bombarded with, makes it almost impossible to shield them from any or all of it. These kids at 7 years old are far smarter than we were at the same age half a century ago and they understand more about adults then many give them credit for. These children at 7 & 8 years old know as much as many 13 year old's did in the 60’s. And while many say this is good, it can be a challenge for the parents who must realize with whom they are dealing and adjust accordingly. In the past a command from a parent did not elicit a response of any kind. Today a command may well be challenged for some logic and even if it is just “hey I’m tired” it gives them a reason to do what they are told and life hopefully goes on without a problem. What I also don’t like in this acceleration mode is the number of children who continuously watch all these smutty cartoons and early evening adult shows. They surpass their parent’s mental prowess and end up as “miniature adults”. These kids bring their learning’s, lack of discipline and questionable morals from home to pass on to our kids in the hallways and like a disease it can spread rapidly throughout any school. The sharp parent must keep up with their kids and provide them with confidence to be independent and to stand up and think for themselves. Easy to say I know, but very tough to do. I have two grandsons that are fortunate enough to have a Mom and Dad that are very good at the art of parenting which is very evident when you see the boys. I have another grandson who is very young at this point but I foresee him as being blessed with great parents as well. Every year that goes by, the job of raising children becomes more and more challenging, so keep your wits about you, Mom and Dad.

Recently it was discovered that the Organization in the UK where most, if not all of the data on man- made Global warming was developed over the past 25 years had lied and misconstrued information to support the theory that man has caused the Warming of the Planet. There were thousands of pieces of information including damning communications between the so-called scientists that showed bias and outright lies were used to keep this myth alive. My guess would be that not many reading this blog are familiar with the details of this discovery because the main stream media is not covering this revelation. They have chosen to ignore it because it doesn’t fit the template required to push this agenda through to its conclusion which, is to turn over the control of the United States and Canada’s energy consumption to the new Global Government which has been formed by the United Nations. This will mean that the largest industrialized nation in the world and another in the top ten will basically turn over their economies to foreigners. How you say? Well consider that the new government will be able to dictate to our industries how much energy they can use, the amount of emissions they can put into the atmosphere and how large a carbon footprint they can maintain. If they don’t meet these imposed standards they will be taxed in a punitive manner. Companies then will be forced to 1. Cut costs (jobs) 2. Raise prices (hit to consumer) or 3. Become uncompetitive with Global competition (those that do not have to comply with these standards China- India & smaller third world nations)and be forced to shut down. The objective behind this is not so much climate control as it is the redistribution of wealth from the North American civilization to the other poorer nations of the world. So if man-made global warming is found to be a hoax it would severely damage the entire UN plan which of course, is unconceivable from a Liberal point of view. While helping developing nations grow their economies appears to be a noble cause, this is not the way to do it. During times when kings, tsars and dictators were the ruling governments of the day you could probably make a more reasonable argument about taking from these elites and spreading their unearned wealth around. But it doesn’t work in North America because most of the wealth has been accumulated through hard work and ingenuity by ordinary folks and not through birth rites or military coups. What reasoning is there for taking away from self reliant, self made men and women and giving it to third world countries that for the most part are still ruled by despots? Once again the compassionate Liberals and socialists just want control of the money so they can hand it out indiscriminately to the needy with no thought to where it originated and in what manner it could be spent productively (think dark black hole). The brain washing of a generation seems to have been working and therefore the results may be achieved in Copenhagen this week. People get yourself educated on this subject because if you don’t, you will be following the herd into the slaughterhouse and the worse of it is, you will be smiling and thinking you have done a good thing.

CASA GRANDE, ARIZONA — Authorities say a man died after parachuting from a cell phone tower at night and hitting high-voltage power lines.
Pinal County sheriff's Lt. Tamatha Villar says 23-year-old Darrell Dunafon and two friends broke into a cell tower site about 30 miles south of Phoenix on Friday night and were parachuting off the approximately 400-foot-tall antennae.
Dunafon's parachute tangled in nearby 12,000-volt power lines and he was shocked with a live wire.
Villar says the two friends called for help, and rescue crews turned off the power and cut Dunafon down. He had a slight pulse but was pronounced dead at a hospital in the nearby town of Casa Grande.

SEATTLE — Seattle police say a man who thought he was a ninja was impaled on a metal fence when he tried to leap over it. An officer who was looking for an assault victim nearby Monday night heard the man screaming for help. Police supported him to prevent further injuries until medics arrived and took him to a hospital, where he was in serious condition in intensive care on Tuesday.

OZARK, ARK. — A police officer in a small Arkansas town used a stun gun on an unruly 10-year-old girl after he said her mother gave him permission to do so. Now the town's mayor is calling for an investigation into whether the Taser use was appropriate

SAUDI ARABIA-- a man has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft because he makes predictions on television.Ali Sibat is not even a Saudi national. The Lebanese citizen was only visiting Saudi Arabia on pilgrimage when he was arrested in Medina last year. A court in the city condemned him as a witch on Nov. 9.

NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIA ---I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Winner Gino D'Acampo and Stuart Manning face charges of animal cruelty after cooking and eating a rat in the show. The RSPCA in, said it was "not acceptable" that a rat had been killed by the pair as part of a performance. Police confirmed they had issued court attendance notices for 3 February 2010. The Italian chef and actor ate the rat after they were "exiled" and reduced to rations of rice and beans on the show.

TWIN CITIES Marathon --Veteran marathoner Jerry Johncock, 81, was four-fifths through the in October when he was overtaken by a medical problem common to men of his age: urinary blockage. As he stopped to discuss his plight with officials, noting that he would have to quit the race to get to a hospital before his bladder burst, a spectator overheard the conversation and offered him the use of a "spare" catheter he had in his car. Johncock repaired to a rest room, administered the catheter, and returned to finish the race. [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 10-7-09]

CHERTSEY ENGLAND-- In August, the Thorpe Park amusement facility, posted signs on its roller coaster admonishing riders not to wave their arms during the ride. According to director Mike Vallis: "We've found that when the temperature tops 77 degrees (F), the level of unpleasant (underarm) smells can become unacceptable, and we do receive complaints." [Daily Telegraph, 8-18-09]

HAMILTON ONTARIO-- Lisa Blair and her six sisters were enjoying a Thanksgiving meal when they began noticing suspicious flecks in the food and realized that their necklace lockets, containing the ashes of their mother (who had passed away two weeks earlier) were leaking. A local funeral services store restocked and sealed the lockets. [Hamilton Spectator, 10-26-09]

If you want to focus on learning a skill which will be extremely useful to you during your lifetime then learn to lie properly. Our society today, demands that you know how to lie and more so, to do it with passion. If you think I am kidding consider the justice system which is built around the ability to lie convincingly. If you are arrested or charged with a crime and you are guilty every lawyer worth his or her salt will tell you to lie by pleading not guilty. In this way the system has to prove you guilty within a reasonable doubt. If you are sued on a civil matter then there is a need to prove your guilt through a preponderance of the evidence and therefore you always have a chance of winning the case. Politicians above all others must master this skill if they are ever to be successful. They call it spin but the bottom line is it is deceit by way of omission, the twisting of facts or just bold face lying. Think about the celebrities who get caught with their hands in the evil cookie jar and then tell me which ones ever come right out and tell you the truth before they are forced to do so if ever. Sure David Letterman did a mea culpa on national TV but this was after years of lying to his wife and others. How about all of the athletes that took steroids and then adamantly denied it to the public and in some cases to the Congress of the United States and the Justice Department? But it is not just criminals and famous people that lie it is every one of us who twist the truth every day to suit our needs. If you get stopped by the police for speeding do you immediately say to the cop “Yes I was speeding I deserve the ticket” and then smile while you accept a $100 fine? If your child breaks an expensive piece of furniture are the chances good that they will readily admit to it or say “It wasn’t me!” In the past a man’s word was his bond and in most cases you could take it to the bank because people had to have trust in other folks in order to make society work in the old days. Most times it was a matter of honour and folks such as knights and royals would prefer to die rather than damage their reputation. The Military is the last harbinger of honour as I see it because they require this attribute if an army is to function properly and each soldier is to rely on his or her comrade on the field of battle. Even when captured they do not lie when interrogated they just relate minimum details like rank, name and serial number. So you ask, “How did we get here?” My guess is that our Liberal society has and continues to focus on the “ME” premise and not the good of the whole, that being our families, our culture, our society and our country. Rules and principles have been thrown out the window if it means I can get a better deal for myself. The media and the guru’s make fun of religion and anything else that isn’t based strictly on the quest for a hedonistic society that has no moralistic boundaries. Truth is a premise that can make you a fool, a rat or a loser whereby lying shows you have courage, moxy and good damage control PR people. It is foolish to expect the truth from anyone today so sadly I say to you, be aware and always consider you are being told a lie until you can verify it yourself.

It never ceases to amaze me that so many people are ready and willing to get in line and follow the latest fad, movement or so-called “good cause” without exploring the facts and information surrounding it. This latest “Man-Made Global Warming Issue” is another hoax perpetrated on society by the elitists around the world that think they know what’s best for everyone. Al Gore and his ilk have made millions from this myth about man (and in particular the North American man) causing the earth’s climate change. The so-called science for this conclusion has never been verified and now we see why. The scientists who were sceptical of this fallacy were always brushed off by the elitists and were never allowed to publish their opinions and supporting evidence in the Science Journals. Evidence supporting the fact that any warming of the planet was not man-made was destroyed lest it get into the wrong hands. The socialist governments around the world needed this scam to be believed so they could perpetuate one of the biggest frauds the Western World has ever seen. You see this was to be the “Mother of the Redistribution of the Wealth” programs. Through the guise of “Global Warming” trillions of dollars would be moved from the USA, Canada, Mexico and the EU (Not China and India) to all of the third world countries in Africa and around the World. Even today after the evidence has spilled into the public arena people still blindly support this fear mongering bunch of liars as they continue to try and get to “One World Order” through this bogus scheme. To believe in so called “Green Practices” is not a bad thing if it makes sense. For instance, changing appliances to save energy makes sense because you save money and it cuts down on the overall use of energy in total. On the other hand to give up your gas-driven lawn mower for a push mower because of so-called carbon emissions which will warm the earth is not common sense. It is a surrender to fear mongering and nonsensical facts. Even recycling can be argued as unnecessary if you consider the cost of the entire recycle infrastructure weighed against incinerators and landfills. I read somewhere that 81% of the USA land area is unpopulated which begs the question why can’t we use some of it for landfill. Cannot modern technology develop incinerators that will prevent the output from becoming smog and forget about Carbon Emissions altogether? These Global Warming hucksters are about people lying to get what they want, it’s that simple. I don’t really know who to trust these days as most politicians are so adept at spinning tales to fit their arguments. I guess in the future we just have to ask ourselves “Does this Make Sense?” before climbing on board with any political party or candidate. When scientists talk about “consensus” beware, because science is proven facts not consensus. When they tell you “man” causes the carbon emissions that heat up the earth right after you see scientific evidence that cow flatulence contributes to 80% of carbon emissions it should “ring a bell”. When the mainstream media does not even entertain a dissenting view on this subject it should make you stop and think “Why?” Don’t be a sheep be a stallion or mare leading the herd.