I read a couple of articles this week that just goes to prove that people take religion to be what they want it to be. Something that will benefit themselves or a portion of their society. I have no understanding of Islam but I do know that it seems to be a religion that [...]

There seems to be more and more emphasis on eating healthy. While I try to eat right I like this quote:
Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.– Mark Twain (1835-1910), was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. Twain is [...]

I love to cook and experiment with food but I don’t get many opportunities to do it. When I do I usually get really good results.
Friday, Mrs. EB had a going away party for someone at her work and it was up to each of them to bring an appetizer. I took it upon myself to [...]

While I was reading the article about the House of Horrors sentencing I was shocked to read that this seems to be a common thing in Edmonton. Also sentenced today were 2 fathers monsters who were convicted of sexually abusing their little girls.
The first case involved a 22 year-old man who was convicted of raping [...]

I did a couple of posts {1} {2} {3} in May about a woman and her boyfriend who abused and tortured the woman’s 4 year old daughter. The daughter is now in foster care (a real good one I hope) and she will be years in therapy trying to get over what happened to her. The [...]

Answer to last week’s question: 

Mandarin - 1 billion +English - 508 millionHindi - 497 millionSpanish - 392 millionRussian - 277 millionArabic - 246 millionBengali - 211 millionPortugese - 191 millionMalay-Indonesian - 159 millionFrench - 129 million

Bonus Question 
There are 28 other countries that list French as their official language. Canada makes the total 29 countries.
There was [...]

My religious views are complicated. I realize there are many millions of people who believe that Jesus Christ was a divine being. I believe that everyone has the freedom to believe what ever they want and the freedom to belong to what ever church they want. That is if they choose to even belong [...]

The more and more I read of Richard Dawkin’s “The God Delusion” the more this becomes apparent.
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.– Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), was a British explorer, translator, writer, soldier, orientalist, ethnologist, linguist, poet, hypnotist, fencer and diplomat. He was [...]

I was scanning the news and came across an article on Reuters site that intrigued me. It was titled “Most Canadians would fail own citizenship test“. As a Canadian I thought this was interesting.
But before I could write this post blasting Canadians I figured I better do a test or 2 and see how [...]

The word for July 4th is “Ultracrepidarian”.
Pronounciation: uhl-tra-crep-i-dair-ee-an
Meaning: Going beyond one’s proper province; presumptuous; out-of-bounds’. A person who gives opinions beyond his scope of knowledge, experience or expertise. A frequent collocation is “ultracrepidarian critic,” a critic who judges whereof he or she knows not.
Don’t you just hate those people. you know the ones. They come into meetings and [...]