February 10th, 2010 by Jonathan
I am going to out myself, I admit that in my younger years I played Dungeons and Dragons quite a bit. There I said it, mock me if you must but that is the truth. In a fantasy world whenever you are out of money the characters go on a quest which brings them fame [...]
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January 29th, 2010 by Jonathan
I have been a Rams fan for about 30 years now. My long obsession started after watching the old Warren Beatty film Heaven Can Wait. I was hooked on the Los Angles Rams. It was something that continued through ups and downs and moves. Through three Super Bowls and last place finishes.
However, I have never [...]
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January 27th, 2010 by Jonathan
Talk to the players who were in Brooklyn’s Dodgers moved to Los Angeles they do not talk about it as a great day. None of their all star greats wanted to go down as anything else as a Brooklyn Dodger if they spent most of the best part of their career their.
Yet for Andre Dawson [...]
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January 17th, 2010 by Jonathan
over 100,000 Haitians live in Canada. One of them represents us as the Queen’s representative in Canada. For that reason, along with a few others I think the situation in Haiti means a lot to Canadians.
Often I have wished that Canada would take up a lead role in the Americas to build up nonthreatening relations [...]
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January 12th, 2010 by Jonathan
I was first really introduced to steroids in 1985. A friend of mine at high school introduced to me the idea of taking them to get “big”. Personally I was more concerned about the side effects than I was about the positive growth aspects. So I never got past a discussion.
In 1988 I was reintroduced to them [...]
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January 11th, 2010 by Jonathan
I consider myself a mushy middle politically. When I do all those surveys for basically political ideology I come out often on the barely left or barely right side. I think that I have over the years modified my political views as I have experienced various sides of life. At one time I was an NDP [...]
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January 7th, 2010 by Jonathan
In light of the views being expressed by various people inside and outside the party I would like to share this comment which I took from my older political blog.
ED: Harper changed my views completely after this interview
From CBC Your Turn:
http://www.cbc.ca/canadavotes/yourview/your_turn_conservative.html
Peter Mansbridge: Next question is coming from a city you’re very familiar with, from Calgary.
Colleen Belisle: [...]
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January 5th, 2010 by Jonathan
Sometimes when you cross the floor you are called principled, brave, honourable, sometimes you are called a whore, traitor, a cheat. Since 2005 I have had to come to grips with the parliamentary tradition of crossing the floor. It is an old tradition in our system. One that is both honoured and vilified depending on [...]
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January 4th, 2010 by Jonathan
As the news of the day was announced on my radio at 6:30 this morning I have to admit to being shocked and pleasantly surprised to learn about the crossing of Rob Anderson and Heather Forsythe to the Wildrose Alliance. I was almost in shock with surprise.
However the Alliance still needs one more MLA to [...]
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December 17th, 2009 by Jonathan
I have only ever been in a room with Premier Ed Stelmach on a few occasions. All of them were leadership related, he was running, winning or holding on to it. On the other hand I was introduced to Premier Ralph Klein once, talked briefly with him at a function and was with him on an [...]
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