Crisis in Haiti - More thoughts on the subject · Sunday January 17, 2010 by colin newell
Letter to the editor of the Times-Colonist…
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said this week he was launching an appeal to raise $550 million for the victims of the Haiti earthquake.
U.S. investment bank J.P. Morgan Chase paid its investment bankers $9.3 billion in 2009.
That’s our world.
Ian Laval in Brentwood Bay
That is our World in 2010.
Let’s change it.
Summer Food Fun and Drink Chapter 17 Bang Zoom to the Moon · Wednesday July 15, 2009 by colin newell
It is almost 40 years ago when man first walked on the Moon.
And I was there – in front of an 7 year old Canadian made Viking B&W TV set from Eatons.
I was like 9 or 10 years old.
And now – 40 years later, where has our Space program gone?
Other than militarizing space… I mean that area just above the ionosphere, not really space at all. We have done nothing really meaningful… in Space… for 40 years.
I say we for a reason and with clarification.
Yes, we have dropped probes and crawlers on Mars in the last 10 years.
But we as humankind have done very little to fix inner space or wander outside of that shell around us that is currently cluttered with detritus, Google satellites, spy satellites and weapons.
So. As much as I would like to celebrate this coming anniversary (and don’t get me wrong… I have fond memories from 1969 and all…) – but it just feels like my fellow spacemen and spacewomen (and I) have been standing in an open field this whole time.
Just looking up.
As solstice approaches - We remember Tiananmen Square · Thursday June 4, 2009 by colin newell
Read about it here
We remember…
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As solstice approaches - passports please · Wednesday June 3, 2009 by colin newell
Ask the average American which two countries border on the U.S.A.
And they will either give you a blank stare…
or they will say (after a suitable hesitation…)
“Alaska and Hawaii?”
or they will say…
“Countries?”
They don’t know.
And for Americans, a passport does not make sense…
because the U.S.A. is the World.
What do they need a passport for when the World is…
well… the U.S.A.
Yes. This is a gross exaggeration
And this exaggeration is like painting a snake and adding legs.
But it illustrates a subtle point. It may be difficult to convince a population of prospective travelers, of skittish explorers… that they need anything beyond their drivers license or an oral declaration – to allow them to enter, well… anywhere.
I am not a betting man – but I think it is safe to assume that American visits to Canada are about to take a major down-tick.
Meantime, my passport is up to date. I love America and I plan on visiting it often in the next while.
