“COMPETITION/ Your chance to win a stylish LG InstaView Objet Collection® Fridge, valued at $5,999/ LG Electronics Australia brings a pop of colour into the kitchen with the release of its new LG Objet Collection® Fridge, which sports a sleek design and a range of colour panels that lets users curate their kitchen space to express their own unique style. With customisable colour panels available in various colours and finishes including Silver, Green or Black stainless steel or Beige, Silver, Pink or Mint mist glass, the latest LG Objet Collection® allows consumers to set the mood and style of their kitchen. On top of its stylistic flair, the LG Objet Collection® also delivers on functionality with innovative features that work together to maximise food freshness. For your chance to win a LG InstaView Objet Collection® French Door Fridge, enter by 2 April. Customisation subject to availability. The default colour panels of the prize are Green & Silver Stainless Steel.”

Substantive portion of email from “The Australian Plus” [TheAustralian@e.newscorpaus.com.au] February 9, 2023 [whereas my actual fridge (a) did not cost six grand (b) keeps food cool rather than curating my space and (c) would not express my unique style even if I had one]

“The U.S. has to decide whether its priority is to help Ukraine retain territory or worry about Putin. Fear of escalation is what the Kremlin has deliberately inculcated and which some European leaders have tacitly endorsed. As Matthew Kaminski stated in Politico, ‘The West has been better at deterring itself than at deterring Russia.’”

Derek Burney in National Post March 22, 2023

“Gabor Maté For mainstreaming the notion that there’s no such thing as normal”

#2 on Maclean’s “The Power List: 2023” in the health care category, in Maclean’s March 16, 2023 [totally, and predictably, missing the paradox that he made it normal to think there’s no normal... plus how could you treat a condition if you didn’t know how it normally worked and to what it normally responded?].

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”

Henry Ford, cited as standalone “WORDS OF WISDOM” in Epoch Times email teaser March 18, 2023

In my latest Epoch Times column I say Justin Trudeau’s partisan suspension of the carbon tax on home heating oil doesn’t prove his climate crusade is secretly a hoax, it proves he’s openly a very silly man.

“If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.”

Thomas J. Watson, quoted by Jeff Hayden on Inc. online (www.inc.com/jeff-haden/top-350-inspiring-motivational-quotes-to-tweet-and-share.html)

“can the view that all religions are equivalent really be taken seriously? If such is the case, how should one explain that, on their occasion of the rebuilding of the main Aztec temple in 1487, more than 20,000 people were bled to death over four days on the altars of Tenochtitlan, in the upper Mexico valley, as human sacrifices to the sun god?”

Richard Bastien in Convivium Vol. 2 #7 (April-May 2013)

“generating a great deal of inattention.”

Lee Morrison quoted in Ottawa Citizen April 27, 1999 [regarding Randy White’s campaign to force the government to televise parliamentary committees so you can see why].