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About 18 months ago we had a major and unusual wind storm called a Derecho. Nobody had ever heard the term before but it is a windstorm related to thunderstorms that knocked out power for four days...

in particular, make sure that the batteries on your smoke detectors are good. Replace them about every 6 months.

I have never had a problem with any flash drive that I have purchased irrespective of who made it. Probably the simplest approach is to visit Best Buy or Staples and purchase whatever brand that...

I just bought a new HP computer this week and when setting it up, the new computer offered to copy the apps from the previous computer. That computer is also an HP and when I pressed the button, the...

There does seem to be a problem logging on. My year old computer will not allow me to open any sub sites, nor will my brand new computer. I just found that my 5 year old computer will allow me to...

Very good. Very true.

I won't knock pink rifles. My daughter bought one for my then 13 year old grand daughter. She is mechanically adept and within 10 minutes was reloading the single shot, bolt action rifle without...

From a folk song about the Salvation Army:

We never eat fruitcake because fruitcake has rum.
And one little bite turns a man to a bum.
Now can you imagine a sorrier sight
Than a man eating...

I have had three knee replacements (two partials and one total) apparently as a result of 25 years of jogging on hard pavements. My physiotherapist told me that jogging was one of the worst things...

Thank you for the briefing.

Back in the 1950's my father died as a side effect of surgery to deal with a dudenal ulcer. In those days, it was thought that ulcers were caused by stress. Many...

A few months ago somebody was asking about the price of a shooting club membership

I just renewed my membership this afternoon and the price was $570 Canadian or about $420 USD

Our club is all...

A timely posting. I just read a column in the Toronto Star that proposes introducing a "wealth" tax on the very rich on the basis that the income disparity in Canada has increased. The writer chose...

In Canada where I live, all handguns must be stored unloaded, trigger locked and locked in a gun locker or safe. Non restricted firearms (mostly meaning rifles and shotguns) must be stored unloaded...

The licence plate in the photo reminds me that the Canadian Post Office has assigned the postal code H0H 0H0 to Santa Clause's home in the North Pole.

If kids write to him at that postal code,...

I seem to recall that about three or four years ago there was a need for some money to pay for the site and that the participants were willing and able to make a fairly modest donation to raise the...

Always liked Laura Branigan. She seemed to put her whole heart and soul into her music. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXx0pWpszKg

I think that the regulation is that when a soldier is on leave, he or she must carry their service weapon and a couple of full mags. For most soldiers, the service weapon would not be a handgun. It...

There are any number of problems with this incident including the fact that it is inappropriate to shoot somebody breaking into an empty vehicle; the fact that the SS agent fired a number of shots in...

That is how Stalin created the great famine in Ukraine in 1932 (called the holodomor) that caused between 3 and 5 million deaths from starvation. That is also one of the reasons why the Ukrainians...

About 25 years ago we visited Israel and on the first day, we took a walk along the Tel Aviv waterfront. There were two young women walking in front of us and I commented to my wife that they could...

The interesting question and one that can never be answered is why the statues were buried in the first place. One possibility is that they were buried to hide them from a marauding army that might...

Sometimes its hard to tell. Part of the Canadian Embassy in Nigeria blew up a few days ago but it was attributed to a fire in a tanker that was inside the generator building. I am uncertain what a...

We tend to watch a lot of British mysteries on TV and I find that without the sub-titles I can't understand half of what is being said and I'm not sure if its just the accent.

As I told a Scottish friend today, he was really a bang up kind of guy (OK groan and double groan but there is no such thing as a bad pun. The worse it is, the better it is)

Times have changed. Both of my daughters have kept their maiden name although in both cases, their husband's name is easier to spell and pronounce