Over the years, I, and many other writers, have written columns thanking our mothers for being our beloved mothers. The overall tone of these columns tends to favour the sappy and romantic notions we see in greeting cards, and in Hallmark movies. And that’s great! Mom’s put up with a lot dealing with their kids and being a mom, and they deserve at least one day a year in which their hard work is acknowledged.
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Roxanne Tellier – Modern Motherhood
Posted in Family, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags abortion, babies, Bob Segarini, children, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Mother's Day, Roxanne Tellier, Supreme Court on May 8, 2022 by segariniRoxanne Tellier – What’s Normal Anyway?
Posted in COVID 19, Family, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, normal, Roxanne Tellier, segarini on March 27, 2022 by segariniPeople are funny; they want their lives to be interesting and noteworthy, but most of us are good for
about 24 hours of novelty before we’re pining for ‘the good old days.’
Continue readingPeter Offers Some Info on the Planes of the Ukraine Invasion
Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review on March 10, 2022 by segariniThis week’s effort is a tough one to write, for several reasons. Firstly, I don’t want to overwhelm you with technical minutiae, Loyal Reader. I don’t want my editor to think that this is a special edition of “Jane’s All The World’s Aircraft”, nor do I want to base this column on a foundation of footnotes. As usual, I will try to put some things into perspective and address a couple of issues that may be of interest.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – The Music of War and Ukraine
Posted in COVID 19, life, music, Opinion, politics with tags Akçay Karaazmak, Calum Scott, Chernihiv, Chornobyl Nuclear Plant, Corey Hart, COVID-19, DBAWIS, Greg Critchley, Harpin Norm, Kremlin, NATO. the Hague, NCT, Okean Elzy, Paul Christopher Caldeira, Pink Floyd, Poland, Putin, Renaissance, Russia, Russian, segarini, Slava Vakarchuk, Soviet, Sting, Tellier, Ukraine, Ukrainian Chorus Dumka of New York, Ukrainian. Kyiv on March 6, 2022 by segariniThis has been a hellish week. We are watching the unthinkable perpetrated upon the peaceful people of Ukraine by a Russian despot who has become a madman.
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Posted in life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Peter Montreuil, Ukraine on March 3, 2022 by segariniThis week I am going to write about the events occurring in Ukraine, with special emphasis on the armoured column directed at Kyiv. I am basing my content on my knowledge of military affairs gained from many years of study and discussion about the subject with many very well informed people. My goal in doing this is to attempt to make the situation a little clearer to those who may not be completely familiar with some lesser known aspects of the story. But first, some background.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – The Right’s Woodstock Moment
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags anti vaxxers. Canada Unity. Parliament, BizarroWorld, Bob Rae, Canada, Canadian, Confederate, convoy, coup, COVID-19 pandemic, DBAWIS, democracy, Don’t Tread on Me, Emergencies Act, Festivus, Governor General, Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, Nazi, Ottawa, People’s Party of Canada, PM Trudeau, Religious Right, Right Wing, segarini, Tellier, Tin Foil Hat Brigade, truckers, Ukraine, United Nations, Woodstock on February 27, 2022 by segariniOn the surface, what the Canadian truckers hoped to accomplish during their protracted occupation of the Nation’s capital was comprehensible. In the beginning, we, the audience, and they, the truckers and their camp followers, could take as the stated purpose of the convoy and protest a common ennui and a genuine wish to end the most onerous and rigorous of the precautions levied during the last two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Continue readingBob’s Completely Unfocused Journal of Important Issues (wherein the Ukraine, Covid, The Beatles, blind truckers, semi-famous people, and more, collide in a cacophony of broken glass, spilt drinks, and trips to the bathroom, and converge to brighten your day …or not)
Posted in COVID 19, Humour, life, Movies, music, Opinion, politics, Review, Television, Work with tags Beatles, Bob Segarini, DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Freedom Convoy, Ivan Reitman, manhattan transfer, P.J. O'Rourke, sally Kellerman, Ukraine on February 25, 2022 by segariniDeserved or not, Human Beings have been firmly sequestered at the top of the food chain on this planet for the past 4 or 5 thousand years.
As far as planets go, out of the Gazillion or so that zip through space in their little orbits around almost as many stars, we lucked out and got one you can honestly label as a Paradise.
Continue readingRoxanne Tellier – What Price Freedom and for Whom?
Posted in COVID 19, Family, Health, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags Ambassador Bridge, “Bearhug, “Memorandum of Understanding, B.J. Dietcher, Canada, Canada Unity, Canadian, child endangerment, COVID 19, Daniel Bulford, DBAWIS, ex-military, February, Freedom Convoy, Georgia Herring, human shields, hygge, James Bauder, Kayla Burgess, lockdown, M.O.U., Martin Broadmann, Ottawa, pandemic, Pat King, Putin, RCMP, Roxanne Tellier, Russ Boswell, segarini, Tamara Lich, Tom Marazzo, Tom Quiggin, veterans, Windsor on February 13, 2022 by segarini“The “Freedom Convoy” that converged in Ottawa on Jan. 28 began in response to the federal government’s move to require Canadian truck drivers crossing the U.S. border be fully vaccinated to avoid testing and quarantine requirements, but has evolved into a protest of all public health measures aimed at fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Organizers say they will not end their protest until all measures are dropped.” Ottawa Citizen, Feb 13, 2022
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