Glad you plan to enjoy the 4th, but you might have a better understanding of our relationship w/ King George III if you read Coulombe's A Puritan's Empire.
Always look forward to Tuesdays and Fridays for the Pillar email. Today's did not disappoint. Glad I read to the end to see how you celebrated the 4th in England!
Teabags in the Thames. It doesn’t get any better! I’ll be raising a glass of iced tea to the Pillar on the Fourth. It may or may not have alcohol in it. Internal forum.
Thank you for the "explainer" on Canada's Indian Residential Schools. You have more than done justice to the complexity of the situation and have quickly mastered the subject! The quality and thoroughness also more than fulfill the mandate you set for yourselves when you launched this project!
The death penalty and abortion are 1000% NOT THE SAME THING. And anybody with a brain knows it. Abortion is the taking of an absolutely innocent life in a far more barbaric fashion than any condemned inmate in modern times at least is forced to endure and in the place where they are supposed to be most safe and secure: their mother's womb.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with anyone opposing the death penalty, and I am not a great fan of it either, but to equate the one with the other is to kill any chance of ever getting rid of abortion short of Western society being completely destroyed by a war or a massive economic collapse or some other apocalyptic event.
As a faithful Pillar listener, and news attentive western Canadian, I would echo the comments of Lauri below. There are many nuances that would take much time. Well done.
I note that you refer to upcoming meetings with Pope Francis in December. I also note that you did not [I believe] refer to the June 22 announcement of US Secretary of the Interior Deb Halaand to investigate the history of residential schools in the United States.
This tragic story is far from new and far from over.
Glad you plan to enjoy the 4th, but you might have a better understanding of our relationship w/ King George III if you read Coulombe's A Puritan's Empire.
Always look forward to Tuesdays and Fridays for the Pillar email. Today's did not disappoint. Glad I read to the end to see how you celebrated the 4th in England!
Teabags in the Thames. It doesn’t get any better! I’ll be raising a glass of iced tea to the Pillar on the Fourth. It may or may not have alcohol in it. Internal forum.
Ah yes UBS and personal kickbacks, the hallmarks of sound financial management!
Really glad the Vatican has properly committted to employee wellbeing and benefits!
"... ordinance-caliber fireworks?" You mean fireworks of a caliber specified by a municipal statute? Or perhaps you mean "ordnance?" :)
Thank you for the "explainer" on Canada's Indian Residential Schools. You have more than done justice to the complexity of the situation and have quickly mastered the subject! The quality and thoroughness also more than fulfill the mandate you set for yourselves when you launched this project!
The death penalty and abortion are 1000% NOT THE SAME THING. And anybody with a brain knows it. Abortion is the taking of an absolutely innocent life in a far more barbaric fashion than any condemned inmate in modern times at least is forced to endure and in the place where they are supposed to be most safe and secure: their mother's womb.
I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with anyone opposing the death penalty, and I am not a great fan of it either, but to equate the one with the other is to kill any chance of ever getting rid of abortion short of Western society being completely destroyed by a war or a massive economic collapse or some other apocalyptic event.
As a faithful Pillar listener, and news attentive western Canadian, I would echo the comments of Lauri below. There are many nuances that would take much time. Well done.
I note that you refer to upcoming meetings with Pope Francis in December. I also note that you did not [I believe] refer to the June 22 announcement of US Secretary of the Interior Deb Halaand to investigate the history of residential schools in the United States.
This tragic story is far from new and far from over.