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1. 

   Lynette d'Arty-Cross

    /  13 January 2025

   Thank you very much, Penny.

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2. 

   Pat Boileau

    /  13 January 2025

   Great read from beginning to end.

   Pat

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3. 

   Rio

    /  18 January 2025

   A bully isn’t concerned with what is fair or unfair. It seems too, that a “response” will come but it will only be heard by ourselves.

   Our outrage comes late, not when our moral sensibilities are offended but when our comfort is threatened. It has never been an easy relationship. Canada and the United States. Never. We just got good at eating our objections to dubious activities so long as it wasn’t blantant or somewhat “justified” if we leaned a bit to the right. Afterall, was not a danger us.

   Who do we see in the mirror?

   The more we have to lose, the personal choices we have available to us, like whether to holiday in Florida this year for example, the more we will feel the discomfort. But how much? Did a trip to Disneyland you were saving two years for mean you can’t afford to cancel it? Afterall what would the grandkids, who so far have had all their dreams come true, think?

   We can look down on those without choices, and call them the authors of their own poor situations, until our own choices bite us.

   So now we can imagine ourselves united in outrage.

   I have long been dismayed with how easliy we have slept, even when we sent our children off to lose their souls and lives in dubious wars that have never benefited the those who suffered most and only resulted in greater wealth for arms manufacturers.

   Honestly, our well meant declarations of ourage sell stickers and dumb hats.

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