"I ain't lookin' to compete with you... Beat or cheat or mistreat you... Simplify you, classify you... Deny, defy, or crucify you... All I really want to do... Is, baby, be friends with you..." - Bob Dylan http://stepanouk.wordpress.com Just another WordPress.com weblog Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:13:00 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ en hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/0f43fc42bcbcd36a555532b36e80b02c?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png "I ain't lookin' to compete with you... Beat or cheat or mistreat you... Simplify you, classify you... Deny, defy, or crucify you... All I really want to do... Is, baby, be friends with you..." - Bob Dylan http://stepanouk.wordpress.com Too much!!! http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/too-much/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/too-much/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:13:00 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=889 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/too-much/feed/ 0 stepanouk It was a fine moment in history, the tearing down of that wall in Berlin, but, now, 20 years later, where do all stand? http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/it-was-a-fine-moment-in-history-the-tearing-down-of-that-wall-in-berlin-but-now-20-years-later-where-do-all-stand/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/it-was-a-fine-moment-in-history-the-tearing-down-of-that-wall-in-berlin-but-now-20-years-later-where-do-all-stand/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:05:32 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=886 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/it-was-a-fine-moment-in-history-the-tearing-down-of-that-wall-in-berlin-but-now-20-years-later-where-do-all-stand/feed/ 0 stepanouk What further can be said to this, about this? It’s just way too sad. http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/what-further-can-be-said-to-this-about-this-its-just-way-too-sad/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/what-further-can-be-said-to-this-about-this-its-just-way-too-sad/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:59:32 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=883 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/what-further-can-be-said-to-this-about-this-its-just-way-too-sad/feed/ 0 stepanouk Major Malik Nidal Hasan User Image User Image Lovely, JUST lovely! Peachy keen (NOT!)… I can’t believe this Harper guy and his minority government! I understand hunters want to keep their guns, so what’s the harm in having them registered. I’m from the city… I’m not so keen about a neighbour having these things, especially around kids, or if s/he is hot-tempered…yes, yes, guns don’t kill people – people kill people… I understand that, but (and, yes, there IS a but), there are already too many guns floating around and easier to get than cigarettes… Do we really want to make things even more easy? Let the hunters and riflemen keep their’s… I would guess that they have been taught how to use their firearms and how to take care of them and store them and that they are, for the most part, responsible… and, hey, gun collectors probably are too… and, double hey, city folk aren’t too shabby in the ‘responsible’ area either, but (and there IS a but), responsible people won’t mind having their guns registered. It has been proven to be effective in tracing them, in seeing their respective histories (and when those trails stopped) and, in some cases, helped solve crimes even before they’ve happened. If someone is h*llbent on killing another, of COURSE, he is going to succeed with or without a gun… That isn’t the issue. We have to register for art classes; for marshall arts; for other innocuous things… we need licences and at least some rudimentary lessons for things like driving… do we really truly want to have no idea, no matter how far off, the number of guns out there? People drink and drive even WITH laws against it – and kill people… People still text-message while driving even though it is not lawful – and still cause accidents… people still go out and have s*x before they are fully ready and have babies even though it isn’t recommended that a life be brought into the world under such circumstances but we don’t live in a perfect world and its chaos is part and parcel of what makes it all go around… sometimes out of the tragedies some good is come of it all… but (and there IS a but) does that mean we have to go all willy nilly and remove even the most rudimentary guides and rules? We spent so much to put this thing into place… WHY remove it? For what reason? WHAT am I missing here? What blo*dy difference does it make to Harper except that it was some Liberal’s idea to implement the gun registry… What harm can it do? It seems to actually do some good and no harm…so why remove it? Why? I don’t get it… I honestly don’t … this ex-army guy I once knew from the mid-South in the States who believes it is his inalienable right to sleep with his gun beside him was too full of anger and insults in telling me why I was too stupid and so wrong to really let me understand HIS point of view, his adamant point of view, that there should be no gun registry anywhere and guns should be able to be bought anywhere at any time by anyone.. Like this is clear and well-thought out and everything else is insanity (Well, to HIS way of thinking!)… Like the black market isn’t already flooded and this kind of thing wouldn’t add to it just that much more… I know I MUST be missing something here, but I don’t for the life of me know what. There should be a better way to have some kind of control over what is out there and still let hunters and those in rural areas etc. not get bogged down in expensive and/or time-consuming red tape. No? How mediocre and uncreative is the thinking of our elected officials? Come ON! Put your thinking caps on!! You can do it! Come up with a better base… JMO, knee-jerk blather at that! http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/lovely-just-lovely-peachy-keen-not-i-cant-believe-this-harper-guy-and-his-minority-government-i-understand-hunters-want-to-keep-their-guns-so-whats-the-harm-in-having-them-registered/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/lovely-just-lovely-peachy-keen-not-i-cant-believe-this-harper-guy-and-his-minority-government-i-understand-hunters-want-to-keep-their-guns-so-whats-the-harm-in-having-them-registered/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:55:38 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=879 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/lovely-just-lovely-peachy-keen-not-i-cant-believe-this-harper-guy-and-his-minority-government-i-understand-hunters-want-to-keep-their-guns-so-whats-the-harm-in-having-them-registered/feed/ 2 stepanouk What a story! Inspiring AND a bit uncomfortable and discomforting at the same time; it does make one think, however… not as much about the person featured in the story, although, hey, he’s got quite a life, but how WE, each one of us, lives – chooses to live, or like lemmings, follows blindly in a lifestyle created for us by advertisers etc. http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/what-a-story-inspiring-and-a-bit-uncomfortable-and-discomforting-at-the-same-time-it-does-make-one-think-however-not-as-much-about-the-person-featured-in-the-story-although-hey-hes-got-qui/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/what-a-story-inspiring-and-a-bit-uncomfortable-and-discomforting-at-the-same-time-it-does-make-one-think-however-not-as-much-about-the-person-featured-in-the-story-although-hey-hes-got-qui/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:32:42 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=876 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/what-a-story-inspiring-and-a-bit-uncomfortable-and-discomforting-at-the-same-time-it-does-make-one-think-however-not-as-much-about-the-person-featured-in-the-story-although-hey-hes-got-qui/feed/ 0 stepanouk Oh! Dear! Oh, dear! http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/oh-dear-oh-dear/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/oh-dear-oh-dear/#comments Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:45:41 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=872 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/oh-dear-oh-dear/feed/ 0 stepanouk Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle. The Royal Family has a serious image problem in Canada, public broadcaster CBC reported Tuesday, citing a national poll taken ahead of a visit here by Prince Charles. Photo:Leon Neal/AFP AFP OK, this is just TOO much, no??! http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/ok-this-is-just-too-much-no/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/ok-this-is-just-too-much-no/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:18:02 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=865 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/ok-this-is-just-too-much-no/feed/ 0 stepanouk Right…independence is the ‘ONLY’ solution (NOT!!!)… Right after we get swallowed up by the Americans (DEFINITELY NOT!!!)… one (American) of whom, this reminds me, I saw on the nightly CTV news last night, talking to other Americans (was it the US Ambassador to Canada?!), saying outrageous things like the Canadian manufacturers of the H1N1 flu vaccine have been ordered to first supply Canadians (EVEN in face of the shortage in the US)… duh?! As though that is a bad thing! It is our country, after all… STILL… You don’t have it yet, Americans… We are not always up for you coming over, taking what you need, dumping what you don’t, and then leaving… as though it is your right, G*d-given no less… Sheesh! http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/right-independence-is-the-only-solution-right-after-we-get-swallowed-up-by-the-americans-one-of-whom-this-reminds-me-i-saw-on-the-nightly-ctv-news-last-night-talking-to-other-americans/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/right-independence-is-the-only-solution-right-after-we-get-swallowed-up-by-the-americans-one-of-whom-this-reminds-me-i-saw-on-the-nightly-ctv-news-last-night-talking-to-other-americans/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:25:21 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=860 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/right-independence-is-the-only-solution-right-after-we-get-swallowed-up-by-the-americans-one-of-whom-this-reminds-me-i-saw-on-the-nightly-ctv-news-last-night-talking-to-other-americans/feed/ 4 stepanouk I was reading this and felt kinda bad that ANYone should feel/think this way about our country until I read the last paragraph or two and realized the person who said all these things so arrogantly thought George W. Bush to be ‘highly intelligent’… So, well, that kind of negates just about everything else he might have had to say, IMHO (except about the way we continue to treat Native Americans -That, in truth, is just repulsive…)….ok,ok,ok, he wrote George ***H*** W. Bush, George W’s father, but still!…same family… Ok, sorry to Bush senior… just jokin’ around… … …. sorta… http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/i-was-reading-this-and-felt-kinda-bad-that-anyone-should-feelthink-this-way-about-our-country-until-i-read-the-last-paragraph-or-two-and-realized-the-person-who-said-all-these-things-so-arrogandly-th/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/i-was-reading-this-and-felt-kinda-bad-that-anyone-should-feelthink-this-way-about-our-country-until-i-read-the-last-paragraph-or-two-and-realized-the-person-who-said-all-these-things-so-arrogandly-th/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:39:59 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=850 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/i-was-reading-this-and-felt-kinda-bad-that-anyone-should-feelthink-this-way-about-our-country-until-i-read-the-last-paragraph-or-two-and-realized-the-person-who-said-all-these-things-so-arrogandly-th/feed/ 2 stepanouk A former British high commissioner to Canada, described his host country as a land characterized by its "moderate, comfortable" people and its low calibre of politicians. Whoah! …and he survived with only a bump on his head!!! http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/whoah-and-he-survived-with-only-a-bump-on-his-head/ http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/whoah-and-he-survived-with-only-a-bump-on-his-head/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:29:45 +0000 stepanouk http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/?p=844 ]]> http://stepanouk.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/whoah-and-he-survived-with-only-a-bump-on-his-head/feed/ 0 stepanouk