With respect to the patronizing incident that took place yesterday during our federal election campaign, whereby a Conservative Ministerial aide said to a man from Barriere Lake: “If you behave, and you’re sober, and there’s no problems, and if you don’t do a sit-down and whatever, I don’t care. One of them showed up the other day and was drinking,” The woman who uttered these remarks, Darlene Lannigan, I think will sit down later this week with some local First Nation folks to sort it out, but I thought it was notable that other members of the Minister’s staff apologized …
It’s complicated times in the Western world (he says with some irony). If you are wondering what is happening to the economy and why, it’s very difficult to discover unless you are right in it. And this is why I love the blogosphere. My friend Rob Paterson has not only lived in the high levels of the world of high finance, but has alos been through a stock market crash before, in 1987. As such the story he is telling on his blog is deep and informed, and it’s also accessible. This is because Rob cares about storytelling, and …
This morning, driving up to the clubhouse at the Seven Hills Golf and Country Club near Port McNeill, there was a mother black bear and her cub roaming around the parking lot. They took off before I could get a photo. The journey continues…I’m in Vancouver tonight enroute on a red eye to Toronto and then Ottawa.
Nice find from Kevin Harris who blogged the Republican’s digs at Barack Obama’s community organizing experience: George Pataki: ‘He was a community organizer. What in God’s name is a community organizer? I don’t even know if that’s a job.’ Then former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered his own snickering hit job. ‘He worked as a community organizer. What? Maybe this is the first problem on the resumé,’ mocked Giuliani. A few minutes later, in her acceptance speech for the GOP vice presidential nomination, Sarah Palin declared, ‘I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except …
Recently Karen Sella posted a request to the OSLIST among other places for books that are about being human Today she posted the list. Here is your new life reading program! Playing and Reality, D. W. Winnicott Maturational Processes and the Facilitating Environment, D,W. Winnicott Sexual Personae: A History of the feminine from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Camille Paglia The World of Pooh, A.A. Milne The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Graham The Spell of the Sensuous, David Abrams The Synthesis of Yoga, Sri Aurobindo, The Inner Journey Home: Soul’s Realization of the Unity of …