Bob and Ellie Tupper are not just beer drinkers, they are beer detectives! They started logging notes of what their work as sleuths revealed in 1979, and have been going hard it now for 35 years. What prompted the unassuming, mild mannered couple from Bethesda, Maryland to delve into darkened taverns, risk clandestine sidewalk cafe consummation, and to be tempted …
Mankind is losing the battle to survive without firing a single shot. I consider anyone responsible for the death and mutilation of our citizens an enemy to our nation. I gladly join taxpayers to fund protection by our Canada’s military and security services, for there are very real people with very bad intentions out there, and more seem to appearing every …
How many odds have been defied in that Earth hasn’t been hit by a large asteroid or meteor in several years? To paraphrase what George Orwell wrote in 1984, three other slogans that could be used by the double thinkers are Black is White, Insanity is Sanity, Illness is Health. To me getting intimate with a smoker is like licking …
By Ron Murdock “Churches must find liberation from the old wineskin of ‘church’ and become places of mission. We joyfully lose our lives for the sake of Jesus and the gospel, believing He will truly build his church.” – Michael Ward, head pastor of Central United Church in Calgary, Alberta. The Jesus Movement was a good idea that got started …
Angels in Rags Amid tens of thousands of legs swirling by, a scruffy looking bearded man in scruffy looking clothes sat panhandling for spare change. Thousands rushed by him, doing their best not to make eye contact with the man, and pretending not to know that he was there. His hollowed eyes sought more than friendship, they begged for validation …
Scenario 1: Jonah goes quail hunting before school, and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck’s gun rack. 1958: Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jonah’s shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jonah. 2014: School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jonah hauled off to jail and never sees his …
By Ron Murdock While I find technology has made life easier for us, has it on the other hand made us into communication junkies? Smart phones, I pads, cell phones, lap tops and so on does help a person find a lot of information in a very short time. I find Facebook a convenient way of staying in contact with …
If you ever doubt the ingenious evil of man, here is a true story of how men used virtual cows to create real poop to deal with. Far, far away, in a foreign land called Romania, eight online “farmers” applied for, and received, government subsidies of about $150 per virtual cow, for almost two thousand cows. Three years later, the …
