FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: “KEEP ON WALKING” April 12, 2013
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And for me it is a good idea to look back, to take avoiding action if that is required.
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ANOTHER CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS? April 8, 2013
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Prime Minister Julia Gillard sounded in her address to Asian leaders particularly bellicose, as in “fire your best shot”.
FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: DOWN TO EARTH April 6, 2013
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The weather was mixed over the week. So there were a couple of days Dexter and Hannah missed going out. As usual they took those omissions in their stride, and did not cast aspersions.
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“POWER STUPEFIES”? April 1, 2013
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Veteran journalist, Uri Avnery at Counterpoint, attributes idiocy specifically to the behavior of the Israeli Government in the case of the Mavi Marmara and makes the wider case.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: TIME GOES March 30, 2013
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“I do not count the time. For who knows where the times goes.”
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BARBAROUS LOGIC IN SYRIA? March 27, 2013
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The situation in Syria is horrible, and has been made worst by outside intervention, which shared borders is inevitable. Some outside intervention has been criminal, particularly the arming of combatants.
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A LAST LETTER March 24, 2013
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Tomas Young is a disabled veteran of the Iraq War, who has decided to end his own life. He is one of many young men affected by the trauma of what they have witnesses and they have participated in. Perpetrators are often as much victims as those who suffer from their actions.
FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: COMMONPLACE REFLECTIONS March 23, 2013
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I have not fully recovered from my fall of two weeks ago. I am a lot better. The dogs seem to sense that they need to go easy, when they remember.
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ART OF THE POLIS March 20, 2013
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Can people from different political standpoints even successfully talk to one another about political issues and positions? Is it foolish to even try?
MISSPEAKING? March 16, 2013
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According to ABC News Online, Tony Abbott has pledged a new commitment to what the headline describes as Indigenous Australians. Political leaders in an long election campaign may of course peak too early.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: FALL FROM GRACE March 16, 2013
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I am still feeling the effects of the fall I had last week. There are no superficial bruising, but I injured my left calf.
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NEW POPE, OLD PROBLEMS March 14, 2013
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Muddling your way through sometimes works well enough. The Roman Catholic Church has a long history, so that it has be become remote from the radical, humble preacher of First Century Palestine, who presumably is the primary role model.
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MASKED DEMOCRACY March 12, 2013
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The case for the unrepresentative nature of US democracy seems overwhelming. Could not the same observation be equally made in Australia?
HOLOCENE COOLING, ANTHROPOCENE WARMING? March 10, 2013
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In recent days a study has been publishing suggesting that over the past 11,300 years the mean surface temperature has been showing cooling trend, until the hundred years or so.
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FRIDAY NIGHT DOG BLOG: BORN TO RUN March 8, 2013
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Sometimes along our journey we do meet other people and dogs, which becomes a metaphor for our lives.
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OCCUPATION CRIMES IN IRAQ March 8, 2013
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Bradley Manning faces a long term of imprisonment, possibly life without parole. Others comp licitly and directly involved in criminal wrong doing go free.
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