Recent content by leroi

Totally sickening act of pure evil. :'( I worry about CF personnel self-identifying as military when off-duty and in public.  :( Just watched this documentary set in Britain. Rather long but well done. I thought it was relevant but Mods please move, if misplaced. The doc leaves me with the...

I don't think it's the Saudi government under the present aging king exporting the "troublemakers;" rather it's wealthy Saudis--the one's who have the money/clout, hate the west, hate the king and can't wait for him to die and hold extreme Wahabi religious views.  I would agree however that the...

The Saudi Press Agency isn't the most reliable but posting this about a recent female terrorist's escape from the kingdom and her claim to be joining Al Qaeda in Yemen. Apparently she's tweeting about it. http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20130405159991

Interesting ... this Muslim scholar makes the case against Jihad/war by radicals: http://www.israinternational.com/component/content/article/42-rokstories/318-muslim-scholars-recast-ibn-taymiyyahs-fatwa-on-jihad.html

Captain T.A. Girling of the 'Canadian Army Veterinary Corps' written in 1916 from somewhere in Ypres: Dumb Heroes There's a D.S.O. for the Colonel, A Military Cross for the Sub, A medal or two when we all get through And a bottle of wine with our grub. There's a stripe of gold for the...

Thanks AGB. The reading request is for myself.  I will look for that book. We're very limited in what we can teach or show our students--no films, no music, no art, no phys. ed. A very complicated country where everybody/everything seems to operate on two levels.

Does anyone have any suggestions for reading about the history or politics of Saudi Arabia? I teach females there and have read "Girls of Riyadh" and Jean Sasson's Princess Trilogy. Thanks.

Posting from Riyadh, Saudia Arabia. This incident is having a ripple effect though the danger is not  critical. Mostly confined to disparaging comments from Muslim colleagues. Saturday evening while flipping through the satellite tv stations in my apartment I caught a call-in talk show on a...

I think you are right GAP. Those children and youth who are products of the one child policy won't tolerate a repressive system as they grow and age. They want an open country and they've been raised with much more freedom than their ancestors.

I don't believe this.  ;)

I wrote poem for her before she was found. Was living in Guelph that spring and many of us couldn't go outdoors without thinking of Tori and looking for her. In memory of Tori; condolences to family and friends: Victoria's Garden Splendid, moonlit, Garden's child, Lilac blooms and...

Author to Read Excerpt About North Bay Gunner's 22,000-Foot Drop Without a Chute: Signing Copies of Amazing Airmen This Weekend http://www.nugget.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2831758 Harry Denison was helpless to reach his parachute on the other side of the Halifax bomber as the inertia of the...

Mortensen's work is almost a miracle by today's standards.  To think, he started the Central Asia Institute while living from his car (and a storage locker).  With zero dollars and a typewriter he wrote 500 letters-and got one lucky answer back.  Haven't looked recently at the statistics, but...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's an amazing human being--suffered many losses including the loss to some of  her "feminine parts" which were mutilated at a young age--in the name of an extremist brand of Islam.

Snowbirds will perform  for Waterloo Region,  Ontario: Fathers' Day weekend,  June 19th and 20th. http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/579510