Last week I wrote about local bullies, and those that terrorize the citizens that elected them locally and nationally. More often than we might have thought, those elected bullies, unsated by the billions they suck from their people’s coffers, opt to extend their reign indefinitely. When they do so, they morph from being barely restrained autocratic bullies, into full-fledged, unrestrained, dictators.
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Roxanne 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.
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