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Ubique
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Lawyer (Civil Litigation). Former CDN diplomat. Before that, CDN artillery officer.
Interests: Wild Canadian rainbow trout on the fly. Dusty gravel mountain roads. Bald and golden eagles. All spiritual guide dogs. Loons.
Ten thousand or more books.
HMCS Protecteur currently under construction in Vancouver harbour.
November 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Pablo's morning walk
November 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Trump admin's 'lethal kinetic strike' on drug vessel in Eastern Pacific kills 2 - SO USA MURDERS BY DROPPING BOULDERS?
Kinetic. adj 1. pertaining to or caused by motion. 2 characterized by movement.
Kinetic energy. n. the energy of a body with respect to its motion. Random House College Dictionary.
November 7, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Coho junping for joy at mouth of the Capilano
November 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Audition now for "Nuremberg Trials II". Contact US Navy, Southern Command.
November 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Trump's Gatsby party at Mar-a-Lago was on brand.
Under Trump, the USA is "borne back ceaselessly into the past". Prepare for the return of slavery, discrimination, environmental degradation, depression-level mass poverty, pre-vaccine medical catastrophes, religion in schools, looming wars. etcetc
November 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Among the mountains by the Salish Sea October 2025
October 31, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The USA Ambassador to Canada must have studied diplomacy at Trump University. Did the Trump Faculty of Diplomacy have any resident students or was it just a "back of a matchbook" type institution?
October 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Lay Your Head On My Pillow,
song by Tony! Toni! Tone, Released 1993
Lay your head on my pillow
And just relax, relax, relax
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Trump is converting the White House into a hotel or resort. A clever way to raise 40 billion USD to offset Trump's recent gifts to his close comrade in arms, the Argentinian Fuhrer.
Collins Dictionary
October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Autumn sky over the far reaches of Vancouver's outer harbour, October 22 2025
October 23, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Once upon a time in the West
October 21, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Pablo's Solo No Kings Parade
October 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Hans Mommsen: The Nazi dictatorship was characterized by an inherent tendency towards self-destruction. It did not so much expand governmental prerogative through bureaucratic means as progressively undermined hitherto effective public institutions through arbitrary use of power.
October 18, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The world we're going down into, the kind of hate-world, slogan world...the crowds of a million people all cheering for the leader till they deafen themselves into thinking that they really worship him, and all the time, underneath, they hate him so they want to puke. Orwell, Coming Up for Air.
October 17, 2025 at 6:32 PM
First Edition published in 2007 by Random House, at page 176:.
"Our reporting has disabused us of the common notion that the current programmatic assault on our constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties began only after the terrorist attacks of September 2001."
October 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The Canadian military first set foot in Afghanistan in early 2002. For Operation Athena, Phase Two, Canadian troops arrived in Kandahar in 2006. By the end of that combat mission, almost 40,000 CDN soldiers had been deployed to Afghanistan, a few even volunteering for up to five tours of duty.
October 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Update on Conrad Black, a BFF (pardoned) of the current occupant of the White House.
October 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Point Atkinson Lighthouse, West Vancouver, draped in peace and fall colours.
Canada's federal government is empowered to legislate generally for peace, order and good government and for various specific matters including lighthouses. See s.91 of
the Constitution Act, 1867.
October 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Vancouver's summer slipped away in the middle of the night.
October 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Looking for her lost shaker of salt.
October 5, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Canadian Eagle Snacking
October 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Sunday September 28 2025 at the edge of the Salish Sea
September 29, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Ancient history.
September 27, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Orca searching for seals off West Vancouver Canada on September 20 2025, seen off the starboard side midships. 5 or 6 other Orcas seen either astern or off the starboard bow.
September 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM