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July 31st./2006; This weekend, I had heard the tragic news on my radio during my stay in my tent-cabin of the approximately sixty people who were killed, among them were children when Israeli jets blasted an apartment complex in Lebanon. I also had heard through the news media a great deal of outcry by people who are against Israel for trying to protect itself which led to this tragic turn of events. I had not heard any amount of outcry during this war, from these same protesters on the diabolical tactics used by Hezbollah of deliberately placing their missiles launchers and firing them among their Lebanese civilians which had led to the killing of these sixty civilians, among them many were children. You would think that people at the UN and people throughout the free world would be totally outraged at the tactics that Hezbollah and these Lebanese Moslem people are using in order to gain sympathy for their cause and forcing Israel to unavoidably kill civilians. What kind of people are these Lebanese Moslem people that would deliberately put themselves and their children in harms way? Only people who have a perverted, diabolical mindset. This terrorist organization and its Lebanese Moslem people are far worse than barbarians for using civilians and children as cannon-fodder. Even barbarians would at least try to protect its civilians and their children from harm in a war. No; Hezbollah and these Lebanese Moslem people are so brutal and blinded with hatred for the Jewish people by their ideology and perverted religion that they think nothing about using their civilians, even their children as cannon-fodder to gain sympathy for their cause and force a pre-emptive cease fire. These Lebanese Moslem people have been so brainwashed and have become so devious and are stupid enough to comply with Hezbollah's diabolical tactics. Those protesters who have continually spoken against Israel in this war apparently do not seem to mind or be bothered at all by the brutal, devious, diabolical tactics that Hezbollah and these Lebanese Moslem people are using. Are those people who speak against what Israel is doing, so stupid, so narrow minded? Those protesters must have a warp sense of justice for turning a blind eye to the horrific tactics that this Hezbollah terrorist and its Moslem adherents are using. Those protesters quickly forget all of the many brutal car and suicide bombings that is taking place globally. The blood of a great many civilians and children are on the hands of these people who have been brainwashed from youth, by their religion, clergy and Hezbollah and became the demented, devious, diabolical Moslem people that they are. Where is the outcry by these protesters against those brutal Moslem people? Their silence is deafening! These diabolical Moslem people who had been brainwashed into a perverted religion are the same type of people that are killing our own Canadian troops who are trying to establish a lasting peace in those troubled regions and are trying to liberate these people from their tyrannical rule in Afghanistan, Iraq and in other parts of the world. As I have said, I have a very hard time dredging up any kind of sympathy for those Moslem Lebanese people who comply with and support this Hezbollah terrorist organization. Maybe the only answer in all of this, after having used all efforts to persuade these brainwashed, demented Moslem people to use peaceful means to settle their differences have failed, is to get rid of these people, once and for all, who are causing so much killing, strife and anxiety upon the global society. Sometime, as history have sadly shown us, a military solution is the only alternative left open when dealing with such people who hold to such a devious, perverted, diabolical mindset.
Sat. Aug. 22nd. 2006; I had not been able to spend some time on this web site lately because
of the fire which had burned our building in which I rent an apartment. The fire had broken out
early Monday morning on August 14th at around 3 AM. The fire had started at the living quarters
of Mike and Sandra McBride, who are the owners of McCool's Restaurant. Mike, Sandra McBride and
their children and everybody else who had lived in the now burning building had vacated it safely,
thanks to the smoke alarm and the quick action of Mike and Wanda Jones, who are my neighbor and
fellow tenants. Mike Jones had got a short ladder from the side of the building and helped get
Mike, Sandra and the children off the second story veranda while Wanda went to the back of the
building where my apartment door was located and rapped on my door and informed me that the
building was on fire. Buddy and I quickly went out of the building. I saw where the fire was
located and knew that I had some time to get some of my camping gear out. I quickly got these and
my outboard motor, paddles and life vests and loaded these into the canoe and hauled it away from
the burning building. The fire was spreading towards the other end of the building, away from our
apartments. Most of the second floor of the building was gutted by the fire. Thanks to the men of
the Haileybury volunteer fire department, and the full-time New Liskeard fire department, most of
the building was saved. Special thanks goes out to those people who offered to help us while we
were standing and watching our building burning. Special thanks also goes out to the O.P.P.
officer who had provided us and the volunteers of VCARS with breakfast and provided
transportation to the Econo Hotel. VCARS had provided us with hotel rooms at Econo Lodge in New
Liskeard. The Econo Hotel has nice clean and cozy rooms and the manager and staff were friendly
and helpful. Special thanks also goes out to Mr. Maurice of CMHA for the continued support of
providing lodging for us until we, (fire victims), were able to find alternative housing. I also
need to thank my case worker, Leslie Symons, Chantel and the rest of the staff at Social services for the
help they gave me during this difficult time. Special thanks also goes out to the people of Haileybury
who were concerned about my well-being. My neighbors and my apartment which were located on
the ground floor had not been touched by the fire. But because the gas, water and electricity had
been shut off, we were forced to move from our apartments. I knew that Irene and Woody Wollridge
own a building and may have apartments we could rent. Fortunately for us, my neighbor and I were
able to rent those apartments from Irene and Woody. We spent the rest of the week moving our
things to our new apartments. It had been a hectic and difficult week.
Sat. Sept. 2nd. 2006; I have recently been made aware that Farr Island, Haileybury, Ont. is a
privately owned Island. It was devestating news to me. Things had been going so well with the
Farr Island Botanical Park Project. I had received an e-mail from the owners of Farr Island.
Dear Mr. Pall,
I was surprised and concerned to run across your posting on the internet
about your actions/plans regarding Farr's Island. As one of the two legal
owners of this island (which can be confirmed by Mr. Robbie Gordon, lawyer
in Haileybury), I would like to hear from you at your earliest convenience.
I can be reached by E-mail -------------- or by phone at --------------. Please cease any further development of the
island at this time. Sincerely, Gordon S Hayward: I am not the type of person who would deliberately or wantonly invade any property that is
privately owned. I had never done such a thing in the past and it was never my intention here. I
respect Gorden and Stuart Hayward, the owners of Farr Island and have cease the work I had been doing on the Island during
the past years. I have now cancelled the Farr Island Botanical Park Project. I have also
informed the owners of Farr Island that I will cease the Farr Island Botanical Park Project and
remove, if need be, the tent-cabin, outhouses, big Teepee and landing dock from their island. I
have also taken out the Farr Island Botanical Park web pages from my "Town of Haileybury" web
site. My only intention was to commemorate the Farr family for their creation of the Town of
Haileybury and give the local people a nice place to visit and enjoy. While the Farr Island Botanical
Park Project may have ended, I will always cherish the time I had spent on Farr Island.
Thurs. Sept. 7th. 2006; The city of Temiskaming Shores has budgeted $3.7 million for the building of a new City Hall that will be located on the Haileybury waterfront according to Tom Wells, who is a city councillor for the City of Temiskaming Shores. According to reports in The Speaker, the main newspaper for the surrounding area, Cy Rheault Construction and B.H. Martin Consultants of Timmins are favored among the three designs that were chosen for the Temiskaming Shores new municipal office building (City Hall). I am glad to see that the representatives of the City of Temiskaming Shores can be trusted to keep their word. It is so much better when people can work together for the common good. The location for the New City Hall is an excellent choice that give a beautiful panoramic view of the Haileybury waterfront and Lake Temiskaming.
Thurs. Sept. 14th. 2006, By now most Canadians have heard about the shooting incident at Dawson College in the city of Montreal. It happened around 1 p.m. yesterday. According to news reports, a 25-year-old man, Kimveer Gill, of Laval, clad in a black trench coat and combat boots, had carried a Baretta CX4 Storm semi-automatic assault rifle and went on a shooting rampage at Dawson College. The collage is located on the corner of Atwater and Sherbrooke in the heart of downtown Montreal, Que. Gill had killed one young woman and wounded 19 other people before committing suicide. Six of the shooting victims are considered to be in critical condition, including two students who received gunshots to the head and are considered in extremely critical condition. When Gill recived a bullet in the arm from police gunfire, he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Due to the quick action of the local police officers, they had stopped the shooting rampage and had saved many lives. Given the infamous 1989 Montreal massacre when Marc Lepine murdered 14 women at Ecole Polytechnique almost 17 years ago, and the Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo. on April 20, 1999, when two heavily armed teenagers rampage through the school, killing 12 students and one teacher before committing suicide. One has to ask the question, how this could have happened given the lessons that were supposed to have been learned from those kind if tragic events? This Gill fellow had a blog on the Internrt, and posted his thoughts on a vampirefreaks.com, an online goth website which has become a hub for the goth culture. On his own website, he is seen touting a Baretta CX4 Storm semi-automatic assault rifle giving every indication that he was a very troubled person with an ax to grind. His blog, according to the news media, indicated that this person was suffering from low self-esteem, probably a very lonely person with a hatred of society and authority figures and had psychopathic traits. No person is an island onto oneself. This person would have known and spoken to some people. He would have talked to people whom he considers as being his friends. Spoken to people at that vampirefreaks.com, goth web site trying to get attention from those people around him. There would have been indicators how troubled this person was which should have been observed by people who had known him. Was there no one who had picked up on this persons demeanor and was concerned about it to get spiritual or physiological help or at least have reported this troubled person to someone in authority that might have prevented this Dawson College shooting rampage from happening? Something tells me that we have not yet fully learned the lessons from those kind of tragic events to prevent them from happening again.
Friday. Sept. 17th. 2006; When Pope Benedict XVI was in Freising, southern Germany, he gave a lecture at the University of Regensburg where the pontiff quoted from a book recounting a conversation between Manuel Paleologos II, an 14th century Byzantine Christian emperor, and an educated Persian on the truths of the two religions in which it said, "Show me just what Mohammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." Historically, that quote was accurate. Regardless how Muslims try to deny it, history itself, past and present, has revealed the violent nature and acts which had been comitted by Muslims. For a person who claims to be trying to bridge the gap between Christianity and Islam, he sure had stuck his foot in his mouth. But the pontiff should have been the last person in the world to accuse Mohammad to have spread by the sword the faith he preached. As history have also shown us, when European Monarchs had converted to Christianity, they had forced, with the sanction of the church, the conversion of Christianity upon its subjects by the sword to those who would resist, with their decree and command to spread the faith they now believed in. I would think that when Mohammad had created the religion of Islam, he had only copied what the Christians had been doing for the past centuries. In this case, the Catholic pontiff, Pope Benedict XVI, has stuck both of his feet in his mouth when he read that infamous quote.
Sat. Sept. 23th. 2006; According to the latest request
by the owners of Farr Island, they want me to remove all of the structures I had built on their
island. I had planned to go to Farr Island this week-end and remove all of the remaining
structures that are there, but the weather forecast calls for rain during the entire week-end.
At the present time, the sky was overcast and the lake was calm. It did look like it may rain
sometime today. But I decided to go to Farr Island and remove as much of the structures that I
could while it was not raining. The weather forecast had been wrong on many occasions, so it is
really hard to plan ahead. Buddy and I had left for Farr Island about 11 AM, and we had a
pleasant canoe trip. I noticed that there was a very light drizzle by the time we had arrived on
the Island. After having put away the gear, I proceeded to tackle the first of the three
outhouses. I found that it was far easier to drive a nail in, than it is to pull one out. It is
especially hard when they happen to be spiral nails. After some time, I had managed to take down
the first of the three outhouses. I got that outhouse down by the time it had started to rain.
Buddy and I spent the rest of the evening in the tent-cabin. I got a fire going in the wood stove
because it was getting pretty chilly and damp around here. After settling down for the night, I
listen to the CBC radio broadcast. By midnight, I noticed that it was still raining outside. I
decided to call it a day and went to sleep.
Sun. Sept. 24th. 2006; It continued to rain most of the morning, so Buddy and I had a late
breakfast. The lake was choppy with winds coming from the north-east. When the rain stopped, I
proceeded to tackle the second outhouse. With that done, I then took down the last outhouse. It
is far easier to take down, than it was to build up. The logs that I had used to build the
structures will eventually rot on the ground. It was evening by the time I stopped to get a
bite to eat. While eating my supper, I was listening to the local radio station and the weather
forecast calls for heavy thunder showers for tomorrow. More rain. After supper, I decided to
remove the dock. At least remove that section of the dock which is out of the water. The
remainder of the dock which is above the water, I cut-up the long logs with the chain saw. By
late evening, the dock was un-usable. I moved the No Hunting and No Trespassing sign from the
dock and placed it on shore where it can be seen. By then, the wind had died down and the lake
was no longer choppy. I had to decide if I should continue to stay on the island or head back to
Haileybury, while I can, given what the weather forecaster had said about the heavy thunder
showers for tomorrow. I decided to head home in case I might not be able to get off the island
due to strong winds. I had already taken down the three outhouses and made the dock no longer
serviceable. I figured that I had done pretty good so far. By the time I had loaded the canoe,
it was getting pretty dark outside. I had a flashlight in hand as we headed for home. All that
is left on the island now is the tent-cabin. I will take it down the next time I get a chance to
go back to Farr Island.
Mon. Sept. 25th. 2006; It was raining this morning, but no thunder storm. By afternoon, it
turned out to be a nice sunny day. The lake was calm, and I thought that had I stayed on Farr
Island yesterday, I could have taken down the tent-cabin today and have a safe journey back to
Haileybury. See what I mean about the weather forecast being wrong on many occasions. Maby next
week-end the weather will be fine for me to take down the tent-cabin. I will take with me my
dome tent just in case the weather changes and we get strong winds and I get stranded on Farr
Island. As for what is left of the dock, I will have to wait until the time when the lake freezes
over to fully take apart the dock.
Mon. Oct.2nd. 2006; The weather forecast calls for a mild and sunny day. The lake was calm so
Buddy and I left the apartment around six AM to take down the tent-cabin on Farr Island. Once
there, I gathered the food and things and removed the wood stove and loaded these into the canoe.
Then I took off the tent-cabin covering, folded these and placed them in the canoe. By then it
was around eleven o'clock so I made some coffee and had a bite to eat. Then I got the chain saw
and cut up the frame into small pieces. The chain saw really made fast work in tearing down the
cabin frame structure. With that done, I set fire to the dock that was above over the water. I
added to the fire some of the short logs I had taken off the dock last week. Unfortunately, the
wind had picked up and was now lapping waves onto the dock, putting out the fire. I will have to
dismantle the rest of the dock, those parts that is still standing, when the lake freezes over
or take it apart sometime during the coming summer months. Otherwise, all of the structures have
now been taken down. I waited for the wind to die down somewhat so that I could make a safe
journey back to Haileybury. The wind was coming from the south so that I was following the waves.
Buddy and I arrived at the Haileybury marina safe and sound by two-thirty pm. This ends the
chapter on Farr Island and my involvement with it.
The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) has put
out a new commemorative coin which will be in circulation soon. The 25-cent
coin features the Medal of Bravery, which Queen Elizabeth ll, established
in 1972 as part of the Canadian Honours System. It is awarded by the Governor
General of Canada to recognize acts of bravery in hazardous circumstances.
"The 2006 Medal of Bravery coins will serve as a lasting expression of
gratitude to Canada's everyday heroes and is a tribute to their courage that
defines this nation," the Honourable Lawrence Cannon had stated. Up to 20
million 25-cent Medal of Bravery coins will enter into circulation and
Canadians are encouraged to look for it in their change. I intend to keep
one of these coins as a reminder and tribute to those people who serve in
law enforcement (police), Fiermen and firefighters, search & rescue, arm
forces and to all Canadians who risk their lives to serve, protect and save
lives in the line of duty.
Note: The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM) is the Crown corporation that is
responsible for the minting and distribution of Canada's circulation coins.
It began operation in 1908. The Royal Canadian Mint is recognized as one of
the largest and most versatile mints in the world, offering a wide range of
specialized, high quality coinage products and related services on an
international scale.
Every year on November 11, Canadians pause in a silent moment of remembrance for the men and
women who have served, and continue to serve our country during times of war, conflict and
peace. We honour those who fought for Canada in the First World War (1914-1918), the Second
World War (1939-1945), and the Korean War (1950-1953), as well as those who have served since
then. More than 1,500,000 Canadians have served our country in this way, and more than 100,000
have died. They gave their lives and their futures so that we may live in peace.
The poppy is the recognized symbol for Remembrance Day. It represents all the people
who had died during times of war. This symbol is recondnized in Canada, countries of the British
Commonwealth, and the United States.
The flower owes its significance to the poem "In Flanders Fields", written
by Major (later Lieutenant-Colonel) John McCrae, a doctor with the
Canadian Army Medical Corps, in the midst of the Second Battle of Ypres,
in Belgium, in May 1915. The poppy references in the first and last stanzas of the most widely
read and oft-quoted poem of the war contributed to the flower's status as
an emblem of remembrance and a symbol of new growth amidst the devastation
of war.
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Section One covers the George W. Bush's election to the extended visit to Booker Elementary on the morning of September 11th.
Section Two covers from Bush's failure to meet with Richard Clarke, to the August 6th memo which talks about the security briefing that Osama bin Laden was planning to attack America by hijacking airplanes, and ends with the Saudi flights out of the US after 9/11.
Section Three covers Osama's relations with his family through Bush's military records and ends with Bush's business history, including Arbusto, Harken and the Carlyle Group.
Section Four covers the facts regarding the Carlyle Group and Saudi money in the United States and its connection to the Bush family, their friends and associates.
Section Five covers from Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9/11 through the natural gas pipeline in Afghanistan.
Section Six covers from the Patriot Act through the war in Iraq.
This link will take you to Section Four to Section Six of Fahrenheit 9/11:
At least 289 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion in late 2001 to oust the Taliban regime for hosting Osama bin Laden. At least 42 Canadians have been killed in the Afghan war, 34 soldiers were killed this year alone. Britain has lost at least 40 soldiers, while the Netherlands has had four deaths. Britain has about 7,200 troops in southern Iraq, mostly stationed in and around Basra. Since the Iraq war began on March 20, 2003, 125 British service members have died, 95 of them in military action. U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the war began is 2,842. At least seven Canadians have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led coalition forces moved in.
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