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Suspicion Breeds Mistrust

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- jim Young A lack of transparency results in a distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.” - Dalai Lama An election will soon be held here in Canada and to be 100% honest, I’m not sure at this time who I will or should be voting for.  The problem is, I don’t believe any of the people or parties that are my available options, best represent me and  ALL of the things that I believe will be the most important issues over the next few years. (Come to think of it, when rereading that last sentence, I just realized I could  have just as easily ended it at the second comma.) I feel like we are scraping the bottom of the barrel and may be left with the lesser of the evils as our choice for Prime Minister. That’s not a particularly good feeling. We deserve to have the luxury of deciding among the cream of the crop, not the lesser of the evils. I don’t believe in the adage that EVERYONE should vote. Mike Wolfe, an economics teacher I had in college once suggested, “Democracy is a gr...
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Published In The Great North Arrow, April 1, 2024: The Great Facebook Plant Self-Watering Technique

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- jim Young DISCLAIMER: Be sure to read this article in its entirety before attempting this self-watering procedure. ”Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash.” - Jerry Seinfeld Facebook is filled with suggested hacks to cover everything from keeping mosquitoes out of your back yard to removing highlighter stains to getting gum out of your carpet with a baggie full of ice cubes. It would be nice if they all worked. In fact it would be nice if even half of them worked. Here’s a hack we got from Facebook that could have been a real life-saver for us. We recently planned a 2 week vacation to Cuba. Like everyone going away for a holiday, we had to make many preparations before we left.  Advise the post office to hold our mail - check Book our dog Myra into a Kennel...
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