tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post64708802566395717..comments2024-03-28T19:18:40.387-04:00Comments on Northern Reflections: What Leaders ReadOwen Grayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-10587859273628262882014-03-07T12:43:13.956-05:002014-03-07T12:43:13.956-05:00An excellent suggestion, Mogs.An excellent suggestion, Mogs.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-66843906901353921472014-03-07T12:35:23.928-05:002014-03-07T12:35:23.928-05:00Correct author Yann Martel is the one who has been...Correct author Yann Martel is the one who has been sending Harper books every 2 weeks since 2007.<br /><br />And no Harper himself does not reply.<br /><br />http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6744<br /><br />http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/yann-martel-hears-from-harper----finally/article4275782/<br /><br />Anyways here is my recommendation for Mr. Harper to read:<br /><br />The Sandbox Bully Paperback – March 19, 2012 <br /><br />by Leonidas Tarca (Author) , Molly Buffington (Illustrator) <br /><br />About the Author<br /><br />STOP IT Campaign founder Leonidas Tarca has over eighteen years’ experience working with Southern California students, from the inner cities of the San Fernando Valley to the suburbs of Burbank. He and his wife Amanda, a school psychologist with the Pleasant Valley School District, earned their undergraduate and masters degrees from California State University at Los Angeles. Leonidas is currently an assistant principal for the Burbank Unified School District, where The STOP IT Campaign is being implemented in elementary and middle schools on a district-wide basis. To learn more about Leonidas Tarca and The STOP IT Campaign, please visit www.thestopitcampaign.com.<br /><br />I think this to be the perfect book for Harper 1) its short, 2) its written by an American. After all he gets his strategies from domineering Americans, maybe this could be the perfect antidote.<br /><br />Ya think?<br /><br />MogsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-91253127514414092532014-03-07T12:24:39.123-05:002014-03-07T12:24:39.123-05:00It's been evident for some time, ffd, that Har...It's been evident for some time, ffd, that Harper and his cohorts consider themselves members of the elect.<br /><br />I doubt they've paid any attention to the parable of Lazarus and the rich man.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-4973669650952124562014-03-07T11:25:09.809-05:002014-03-07T11:25:09.809-05:00If Harper reads at all, I would expect it to be ma...If Harper reads at all, I would expect it to be mainly fundamentalist religious stuff. I say that from my experience with such religious types. <br /><br />However many fundamentalists don't read anything, including the Bible. A survey, whose origin unfortunately escapes me, found that atheists and agnostics were far more familiar with the Bible than fundamentalist Christians, many of whom couldn't distinguish Old Testament from New Testament quotes. These were simple, straightforward quotes too.<br /><br />Who are these people? Knowing this will explain a lot about Harper, I think.<br /><br />I find that many fundamentalists think they have a special relationship to God that supersedes human laws, and that they divide people into saved and unsaved. What happens to the unsaved doesn't matter.<br /><br />Such thinking can easily become psychopathic. Criminal behaviour isn't criminal when the unsaved are the victims, they think. Maybe Harper is really nice to members of his church.<br /><br /> ffdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-40549797336670083552014-03-07T09:41:41.631-05:002014-03-07T09:41:41.631-05:00I believe the author is Yann Martel, the author of...I believe the author is Yann Martel, the author of Life of Pi, Loving It.<br /><br />I don't believe Harper has communicated with Martel.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-20637726965892112682014-03-07T09:10:49.209-05:002014-03-07T09:10:49.209-05:00Harper reads only his press releases. A very promi...Harper reads only his press releases. A very prominent author, (name escapes) has been sending books, regularly, to Harper, with the advice to read- SOMETHING. Good leaders read a vital mix of fiction and NF. We can see how that's working out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-83126849252476365732014-03-07T09:05:57.803-05:002014-03-07T09:05:57.803-05:00Your analysis of Harper, as always, is spot on, sa...Your analysis of Harper, as always, is spot on, salamander. He's a frustrated child, who -- I'll wager -- is not familiar with the Canon of Western Civilization -- or any other civilization.Owen Grayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464860078574618579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35117130.post-17409108262810942432014-03-07T08:55:06.069-05:002014-03-07T08:55:06.069-05:00.. it would be interesting to know what our yellow..... it would be interesting to know what our yellow Czar Harper claims to read.. certainly Canadians cannot expect a truth to squirm from the great mind, out to an underling and survive the greasy servile passage to breathless mainstream media via twitter, spokeswank or royal decree.<br /><br />Can we expect him to admit to deep perusal of the shrill Amerikan worx of Tom Flanagan.. in case a nasty trick or two remains untried or explored?<br /><br />Our current Senior Public Servant is indeed an explorer.. leading his lost boy/girl scouts thru the Byzentine swamps of Parliamentary loopholes, litigation, delay, obstruction & denial..<br /><br />After all... if it takes years to prove, years to process in court.. in the clouded desperate yellow & cowardly eyes of Stephen Harper.. its a brilliant strategic play<br /><br />Its never been about Canada.. never will be..<br />its a sandbox.. with a distorted childish adult<br />parked n the middle and throwing sandthe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.com