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ajdohmen (55)in #politics • 6 years ago
Quebec's Choice
Well, the elections in my province have come and gone, and what a surprise it was for some people who believe that if they visualize something hard enough, it will come to…
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ajdohmen (55)in #politics • 6 years ago
Ackkkkk!! Elections Again!!!
Here, in my part of Canada, we're getting in to another round of elections. Later this fall, we'll be having a provincial election, and then in just a year's time, we'll be…
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ajdohmen (55)in #socialmedia • 6 years ago
Bakers, Florists, and Twitter, YouTube and Facebook
A storm is raging in social-media-land, and it is a fearsome storm, indeed! Over the weekend just passed, a large number of people and organizations found themselves banned or…
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ajdohmen (55)in #healthcare • 6 years ago
Be Careful What You Wish For!
A couple of weeks back, I was crossing the street at a corner where I duly noted the flashing red stop lights. As I reached the other side of the street, a woman confronted me…
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ajdohmen (55)in #world • 6 years ago
Socialists Plotting Economic Takeovers, Fake 'Thinkers', and Universities Were Never Free
A few days ago, I found this disgusting thing in my YouTube feed. For those of you who are not going to bother to look at it, it is a video exhorting socialists to be ready…
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ajdohmen (55)in #ideas • 6 years ago
Snot, Savages, and Reptilians
One of my elementary school teachers told us an amusing anecdote about an encounter between a 'civilized' man and what used to be called 'a savage'. It went something like…
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ajdohmen (55)in #myths • 6 years ago
Giants, Darwin, and Dolly
Tell a Darwinist that you don't believe mankind evolved from monkeys, and the Darwinist automatically assumes that you believe in creationism. Pseudo-intellectuals have that…
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ajdohmen (55)in #socialism • 6 years ago
Russia Went off the Reservation, and the Sleepers are Enraged + the Ziggurat (or Pyramid / Tower of Babel)
Before reading this post, I strongly suggest that you watch this video , or at least this shorter one . Back in the mid-1980s, Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov made a few…
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ajdohmen (55)in #society • 6 years ago
Socialism, Theft, and the Original Sin
"When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand... not before that." -Yuri Bezmenov (taken from an interview that can be viewed here ) Ah, Utopia! A…
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ajdohmen (55)in #society • 6 years ago
The Pitchforks Are On Their Way
Someone very famous once said: If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand. And if Satan…
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ajdohmen (55)in #myth • 6 years ago
Ancient Plagiarists or How Sodom and Gomorrah was a Cautionary Tale About Hospitality
In the ancient world, the greatest crime you could commit was a crime against hospitality. Yes, I just said that being inhospitable was the ultimate crime, and, moreover, one…
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ajdohmen (55)in #thinkingpeople • 6 years ago
"What is 'Truth?'"
"What is truth?" retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, "I find no basis for a charge against him." John 18:38 (NIV) With all the…
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ajdohmen (55)in #society • 6 years ago
A Social Media Cat Story That is an Allegory Outlining a Greater Problem
There is a guy in my neighborhood who takes his cat out for walks. If the cat was on the end of a cat-leash, it would be remarkable enough, but this guy has trained the cat to…
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ajdohmen (55)in #news • 6 years ago
The Montreal Gazette Covers the Slaughter of 58 Palestinians - Or Does it?
Yesterday, fifty-eight Palestinians were killed by the IDF. Around two thousand more were wounded. You'd think that the morning papers would be running headlines about it…
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ajdohmen (55)in #barter • 6 years ago
Why Barter is Better
How much value does a Ferrari have to a blind, quadriplegic monk who has renounced the world and lives on a mountaintop in the Himalayas? Approximately zero value. If you gave…
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ajdohmen (55)in #history • 7 years ago
Abdullah's Side of the Story
There is a French proverb that goes something like this: "In order to judge, you have to listen to both sides." Makes sense, doesn't it? Most normal people would even say that…
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ajdohmen (55)in #art • 7 years ago
Urban Cat Art
Taking a stroll down Sherbrooke Street, I looked to my left and suddenly saw .... CATS!!! But not normal cats! These cats were staring out at me from from portraits hung up on…
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ajdohmen (55)in #religion • 7 years ago
Sacrifice: Feeding a Hungry God
When we think of the Old Testament, we think of... animal sacrifice. Then we quickly blow it off as an archaic practice and forget about it. At most, we blow it off as some…
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ajdohmen (55)in #justice • 7 years ago
"The Truth Is No Defense"
My sweet, cuddly foster-now-adopted-cat has a peculiar habit. Whenever he is sitting on my lap and I scratch his armpit, he flings his paw up and out in what is, unmistakably, a…
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ajdohmen (55)in #work • 7 years ago
Employment For The 'Unemployable'
I have someone that I talk to whenever I encounter him while walking along a certain section of a nearby street. He's physically strong, capable of doing heavy jobs, and…
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