Greg Wilmot Says So

Greg Wilmot - Alphabet

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 17:40:42 GMT

Why should the alphabet be A to Z? We ought to reverse it and put an end to that built-in tyranny that has dogged us all for centuries.

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Greg Wilmot - X Gender

Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:54:59 GMT

The transgender factor in sporting competition has become a popular issue these days, but even the experts on both sides are not clear on the fairness of it all.

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Greg Wilmot - Guns and the NRA

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:12:09 GMT

The NRA needs to step up, and work with folks to curb gun violence, and be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

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Greg Wilmot - Canuck Culture

Wed, 15 Jun 2022 17:45:18 GMT

The age old Canadian determination to capture cultural smoke in a bottle.

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Greg Wilmot - Coincidence of Life

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 00:50:56 GMT

Why are we here on this planet, at this time? It's really just the fragile and wraithlike luck of a cosmic draw.

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Greg Wilmot - British Royalty

Wed, 01 Jun 2022 21:41:45 GMT

The very real problems of internecine belligerence at the beginning of the 20th century which created serious family conflicts all across the old Europe, eventually turning some ancient monarchies into new world republics.

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Greg Wilmot - The Mystery of the Faith

Wed, 25 May 2022 21:23:46 GMT

The existence of God has been debated over the centuries by clerics and lay's. Either way, absolute power should have done a better job of building a kinder world and gentler people.

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Greg Wilmot - Atomatism

Wed, 18 May 2022 17:42:53 GMT

In the court system in this country, there is sometimes reference to something called "unconscious, involuntary behavior." The trouble is, it is all too often neither "unconscious nor involuntary."

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Greg Wilmot - The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence

Wed, 11 May 2022 19:44:32 GMT

A delusional and self deceptive idea based on a recklessly flawed and dangerously imprudent assumption of universal civilized benevolence.

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Greg Wilmot - Daylight Savings

Wed, 04 May 2022 16:51:29 GMT

After more than a century, it might be time to finally abolish Daylight Savings time. Technology and the human condition has rendered it functionally irrelevant.

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Greg Wilmot - Ukraine and Nazis

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 19:08:07 GMT

Putin says the Ukraine defenders are Nazis. We say they are victims. It's all 'politics in motion' and the evolving of history.

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Greg Wilmot - Rape

Wed, 20 Apr 2022 18:31:45 GMT

Rape and sexual assault are two terms that need to be discarded from the the nomenclature of law, because the baggage that they carry is too often contrary to the rights of innocent victims.

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Greg Wilmot - Marxism

Wed, 13 Apr 2022 20:22:50 GMT

What is Marxism really? At its base a simple political ideology, corrupted by authoritarianism and demonized by misunderstanding.

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Greg Wilmot - Distinct Societies

Fri, 08 Apr 2022 18:09:43 GMT

Separatism seems to have cooled somewhat in La Belle Province, but the concept of a Distinct Society is not a bad thing, even if some regard it as what is called Balkanization.

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Greg Wilmot - Critical Race Theory

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 21:12:16 GMT

Just the latest American cause célèbre in the Post Modernist political sport of ignoring reality, and replacing it with dialectic fantasy ....” (a.k.a. I reject your reality, and substitute my own.

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Greg Wilmot - Driving in BC

Wed, 23 Mar 2022 20:06:21 GMT

A very handy driving manual for the visitors who might need to understand some of the very basic rules of the road in Beautiful British Columbia, including, as a bonus, a special brief tutorial on winter driving out here on the balmy Lower Mainland of the West Coast.

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Greg Wilmot - Cowboys

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 18:24:02 GMT

Like everything else in Hollywood, the truth is so often different from the reality, especially where history is concerned. But, Hollywood, after all, is about entertainment and marketing, neither of which have anything to do with either accuracy or veracity - ignorantly or intentionally.

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Greg Wilmot - Household Engineering 101

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 19:26:31 GMT

The march of technology has imposed great changes on our domestic world, as automation, downsizing, ease of global interaction and trade, teleconferencing and so on, redefines the workforce. One result of this is that the occupation of domestic engineer has changed hands in the average household.

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Greg Wilmot - Ukraine Two

Wed, 02 Mar 2022 18:51:45 GMT

War in the Balkans, once again... Putin has made his move, and like it or not, there is little the West can do about it, except impose economic sanctions that hurt all sides, while Putin doesn't care.

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Greg Wilmot - Black Muslim

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 19:36:06 GMT

A "misplaced Allegiance?" The phenomenon of Black Islam in North America. Why did it happen, and why has Islam become preferable to Christianity for 20th Century African Americans?

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Greg Wilmot - Ukraine

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 19:28:08 GMT

Once again the Balkans are a powder keg, and the fuse, already lit, gets a little bit shorter every day, and our children are headed to yet another meat grinder" on the battlefields of political expediency...

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Greg Wilmot - Driving and Advertising

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 21:58:06 GMT

Tobacco and alcohol advertising are under regulation. But alcohol and tobacco are not the only commodities that are eating our young.

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Greg Wilmot - Truck Conoy

Wed, 02 Feb 2022 20:45:58 GMT

The trucker convoy to Ottawa, was one of the events to come out of the pandemic. But what is it really all about?

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Greg Wilmot - The 2nd

Fri, 28 Jan 2022 01:04:35 GMT

The founding fathers would be appalled at the way the intent of their 2nd Amendment has been misinterpreted over the years.

It has caused more grief than any other clause in the US Constitution.

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Greg Wilmot - Hunting

Thu, 20 Jan 2022 00:16:56 GMT

Greg Wilmot sets his sights on hunters and the hunted

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Greg Wilmot - The Ten Plus

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:06:28 GMT

When one of the tablets that Moses brought down from Mount Sinai fell and broke, we lost some very important commandments that we really need today.

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Greg Wilmot - Female Leaders

Thu, 23 Dec 2021 18:42:47 GMT

Is the gentler sex really gentler? It would seem as though that would be intuitively true on the experience of Mom and Nana. But historical fact and empirical research evidently disagree.

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Greg Wilmot - The Olympics

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:43:54 GMT

How amateur are the Olympics, really? And why should they not be grist for the global political mill, just like everything else?"

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Greg Wilmot - The Public Trough

Wed, 08 Dec 2021 19:40:45 GMT

Sometimes I think our elected officials tend to confuse the concept of "leaders" with that of "servants." They are our employees after all, and perhaps not as grandiose as they would like to believe.

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Greg Wilmot - The Good Book

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 20:15:29 GMT

The Christian Bible is perhaps one of the most published, sold, distributed and deeply loved book in history. But is it divine or just an anthology of religious literature?

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Greg Wilmot - World Wide Web

Wed, 24 Nov 2021 20:59:36 GMT

The World Wide Web - a Boon to information, but only if we use it with extreme caution and a healthy degree of skepticism."

Just like we do for the pronouncements and promises that come from our politicians."

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Greg Wilmot - The Alphabet

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 20:06:54 GMT

There is a pervasive and relentlessly discriminatory injustice in the world. It has always been there, but it is one that few ever think about.

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Greg Wilmot - Remember

Wed, 10 Nov 2021 19:57:35 GMT

Every year in November we remember the brave generations that have given and continue to give their all to keep the world mostly free. Yet every day, new and terrible chapters are written into the pages of future history.

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Greg Wilmot - Strangelove

Wed, 03 Nov 2021 20:51:49 GMT

Where did HIV really come from? A whimsical, if not apocryphal answer to the vexing questions that surround the mysterious origins of this, and perhaps all pandemics.

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Greg Wilmot - Narcos

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 18:57:05 GMT

The so called Drug War, and why we haven't been able to win it in half a century. We are attacking the wrong enemy.

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Greg Wilmot - Vaccinations

Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:28:27 GMT

Why has the Covid vaccination caused so much controversy. It has become a political Cause Célèbre in a way that few if any medical solutions ever have.

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Greg Wilmot - Passing the Buck

Thu, 14 Oct 2021 20:58:55 GMT

Sometimes Christians and other religious folk confuse me, with their contradictory and perhaps even selfishly egocentric concepts of faith and charity...

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Greg Wilmot - Columbus

Wed, 06 Oct 2021 19:40:39 GMT

We have always assumed that Columbus was Italian... but there are a few questions about the actual "nationality" of this medieval adventurer.

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Greg Wilmot - Afghanistan Redux

Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:53:37 GMT

The Western World has backed off from hostilities with the Taliban, but is it really, finally over?

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Greg Wilmot - Fines

Thu, 23 Sep 2021 18:41:09 GMT

They sound equitable at first. But fines have a built-in systemic inequality that may not be apparent at first glance.

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Greg Wilmot - Tempus Fugit

Wed, 15 Sep 2021 21:27:50 GMT

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose... the lamentations of an old Burrard Street, St. Pauls founder member of the Baby Boom generation...

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Greg Wilmot - Abortion

Wed, 08 Sep 2021 21:46:21 GMT

One of the most contentious issues in the socio-political landscape, and has been so for a couple of generations. Is objectivity possible? Probably not.

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Greg Wilmot - TV Commercials

Wed, 01 Sep 2021 20:31:56 GMT

The creeping cost of leisure listening and viewing, as the pipers we must pay find ever new paths to pick our pockets.

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Greg Wilmot - Election Spin

Wed, 25 Aug 2021 22:25:45 GMT

Greg looks at the give and take, the up and down and the constant spin of contemporary elections.

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Greg Wilmot - Afghanistan

Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:41:05 GMT

Afghanistan. The graveyard of empires and the ghost of Viet Nam. It is a war the west couldn't and cannot win.

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Greg Wilmot - Organized Religion

Wed, 11 Aug 2021 19:33:43 GMT

Organized Religion

The human interference in faith and the man-made protocols and rituals are more social engineering than divinely inspired.

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Greg Wilmot - Wrongs and Rights

Wed, 04 Aug 2021 18:10:40 GMT

How do we right the wrongs of the past, and is it even possible? There are lots of hard questions, but no easy answers.

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Greg Wilmot - Multiplier

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 21:46:10 GMT

The old question of "low bid" and why it can be the worst possible way to award public capital projects. Especially if that bid is from overseas.

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Greg Wilmot - Cuba

Tue, 20 Jul 2021 20:36:22 GMT

"The cold war era was not only dangerous, but demonized nationalist revolutions that sought to emulate 1776."

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Greg Wilmot - The Middle East

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 20:52:13 GMT

Greg Wilmot - A Podcast that pokes, prods, and pontificates. This time about the middle east.

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Toppled Statues

Wed, 07 Jul 2021 21:50:51 GMT

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