Category Archives: Ethics
Samaritan Medicare vs Not My Brother’s Keeper
My Wife and I were across the border in New york last weekend (Lake Placid). The palce is absolutely Beautiful, but would I live there HELL NO. Because they don’t have Medicare or social assistance you can rely on. The … Continue reading
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Rednecks, Violence, Pacifism, Rationalism and Christianity
Or what I learned from a JERK in a truck The problem with life lessons is being able to see the lesson in the situation.One day I was turning right out of a parking area and there was a truck … Continue reading
Filed under Christianity, Ethics, Social Responsibility, Tolerance
Sarah Palin Strikes Again – Drilling for Oil in a Wildlife Refuge is a Good Idea.
Sarah Palin was back in the news the other day, in an op-ed piece for the Washington Post entitled The ‘Cap And Tax’ Dead End Palin criticises Obama’s cap-and-trade energy plan which she refers to as a cap-and-tax energy plan. What … Continue reading
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Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency: or Why Not to Become a Model
The other day I was watching a reality show entitled the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, on the Oxygen Network. Why? Well some times I do really stupid things. It is an hour of my life that I really want back. … Continue reading
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Welcome to the Land of the Shallow People.
Recently CTV ran an article on a dating services called Beautifulipeople.com. The service is controversial because it bans so called ugly people. They define ugly by voting on who is ugly. The whole thing is repulsive it reeks of Adolf … Continue reading
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Nathaniels’s in Owen sound, run by Dan Hillard Fires Employee for Shaving Her Head for Charity.
There is one good thing about being a blogger you can be honest if you so choose. CTV reported on a woman who was fired from her job as a waitress because she participated in a charitable event and shaved … Continue reading
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Steven Murray Truscott (update – Steven Truscott has been acquitted in the 1959 murder of Lynne Harper)
I penned the following post this morning, but as of around 11 AM Steven Truscott has been acquitted in the 1959 murder of Lynne Harper. “On behalf of the government, I am truly sorry,” said Ontario Attorney General Michael Bryant … Continue reading
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More Ethics?
Just a quick question. If the last Article on ethics was interesting to anyone let me know. I would like to put forward a few Jan Narveson essays. Even though I tend to find much of his philosophy contrary to … Continue reading
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Go Forth and Multiply?
The following is an essay by Thomas Hurka. This essay was originally part of a series produced for the Globe and Mail in the late 80′s early 90′s entitled Principles. The series was collected and published by Harcourt Brace and … Continue reading
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