Cole's Notes - The Sunday Journalist

The mosaic loses to segregation "Canadians revel in the romanticism of Trudeau's multiculturalism..." "My grandmother speaks atrocious English, eats only Chinese food, has only Chinese friends and has been a Canadian citizen for nearly 50 years. "She's citizen of a country where she can't read the local newspaper, can't order pizza, and has no desire to do so. "Can she truly be considered a Canadian citizen?" You bet, because in spite of, or more precisely, because of all that, she still dutifully votes Liberal Party in every single election!

American Thinker: Obama and 'Da Yutes' : "Whatever can be said about the Boomers -- that they're obnoxious, lazy, self-centered, arrogant, grandiose, and simply weird (And I'll cop to all the above, to one degree or another), a willingness to forego the spotlight is not part of the mix. Add a near-Irish mulishness, a still-unsatisfied sense of historical mission, and a tendency to react to political pressure in the same fashion as warrior ants and it's clear that they are not going to step out onto the ice floe any time soon. Anyone seeking to build a political movement based on superseding the Boomers will have his hands full right out of the gate at least until a lot more of them are dead and gone."

Looking a the new Apple Air laptop, and having an iTouch iPod - I was wondering how long it would be before Apple comes out with a real iBook - just by replacing the keyboard with another iTouch screeen. Using the touch technology on two opposing screens would really make a practical e-book. Plus the virtual keyboard from the software would work well scaled up to a larger key size. Something to thing about, neh?

Pajamas Media: If You Can't Figure Out How to Vote, Blame a Teacher : "But the dunce cap these days belongs to Democrats, who place themselves right smack in the middle of the spectrum, apparently believing their views to simply be the correct and most reasonable ones. Yet, think about the position on energy that has been taken by every one of their Presidential Primary candidates. We should block drilling in a God-forsaken part of Alaskan no-man’s and no-animal’s land, despite the environmental triumph of the Alaskan pipeline. We should ban construction of additional nuclear power plants, despite decades of success in Europe. We should bet our entire economy on unproven alternative technologies. And, we should remain silent as freedom-suppressing China begins to drill in the Gulf, and Middle Eastern dictators jerk around our economy. This is a moderate position?"

Mark Gungor of Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage produced this delightful contrast between men's brains and women's brains. The full DVD can be purchased online by going to www.laughyourway.com and then "Store".

Well here I had shutdown the Facebook account - hoping to eliminate the problem. I let it sit for a couple of days and then opened it back up for some of the groups I wanted to be in. But here again the problem has cropped up - so I'm posting this in Facebook, and here to prove this is mine To all my Facebook folks - I've been changing my profile slightly since I've found that some Yabbo has been sending out porno videos using my name. If anyone has been offended by this drek, I apologise for letting my profile be used like that. AS folks who really know me know this is not my style. In addition, I'm going to be cutting back on this account and if someone sends you something like this in my name again, forward it back to me and I'll take care of it. For the time being - I'll only be checking this account once in a while, but if you need to get in touch immediately - email me through my blog at colecoop.blogspot.com - or through my Plaxo Pulse profile.

You know you live in Alberta... If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Alberta . If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Alberta. If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in Alberta. If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Alberta . If "Vacation" means going anywhere south of Edmonton for the weekend, you live in Alberta. If you measure distance in hours, you live in Alberta . If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Alberta . If you have switched from "heat" to "air conditioning" and back again in the same day, you live in Alberta . If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Alberta. If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both unlocked, you live in Alberta ...