Danny's Doting(s)

  The crazy days and times we are living in makes me long for simpler ones and harken back to my upbringing when they definitely were. The simple, boring, mundane, and routine has it in spades over complex, anxious, volatile, and eventful no matter what age you are.  Things we a lot different when we were kids on the Queens Line. Things were approached and done differently.  Nowadays we are told to recycle. Then we just did. Enter the Pepsi or Coke bottle. Today there is no such thing (that I'm aware of, anyway) in Canada as soft drink bottle redemption. When we were kids, it was all the rage. Nowadays all bottles go in the recycle bin. Back then, we got, initially 5 cents a bottle for pop bottles of any type or brand, and later a whopping 10 cents a bottle. So, we always took our 'empties' back to the store for the reward, which was immediately blown in pop, chips, chocolate bars, and candy. Mom and Dad could buy us jeans and t-shirts and shoes. That was their job. Our j...

  I was just having a deep, peaceful nap in the car at Costco on Merivale Road in Ottawa while Sharon picked up a few things.  A nearby commotion woke me up. I sat up in the car, groggily looking around for whatever it was that interrupted my cherished car nap time. While I'm an exceptionally light sleeper at home, I somehow can sleep very well and through a lot of noise in a car. It must be from all my years as a nightime paper carrier.  The object of the din readily revealed itself. A stocky man with a strong accent was screaming at a slight, pretty lady with long dark hair between the pair of vehicles forward and to the right of ours.  He was very verbally and physically domineering and she was timidly and ineffectively trying to defend herself. It quickly became apparent he was making out she had damaged his minivan's mirror with her car door, and she was trying to say there wasn't any damage and she just had innocently and accidentally bumped it. She was polite ...

  I may get accused of some trendy morality posterpin things here, but I don't care. I care about my family and friends and their safety and security. The hyenas of Hamas and Hezbollah have finally roused the slumbering lion of Israel. They have poked and prodded and kicked and slapped the miniature giant to never anything but an annoyed or irritated cuff in return. Emboldened by that, the door to door slaughter and kidnapping in the Holy Land by those heinous demons is on a scale never seen before and changes everything.  The unprovoked attack has enraged the people and government of Israel and led to a declaration of War by Prime Minister Netanyahu with retributional verbiage not heard since the attack on Pearl Harbor. Israel has been incredibly forgiving of its enemies for a very long time. This time they have gone too far. Israel's retaliatory action is going to be on a level never before witnessed by the world. They are more than capable and now they are justifiably angry...