David Milton McGowan

  Write a Review! They're eating the dogs of the people who live in Springfield. Why is it you can’t find comprehensive information about events in the news. Why is it that news sources give us fantastic headlines but very few facts to support those wildly emotional headlines? It’s because of you. Yes, you. You didn’t write a review to the paper saying something like, “I really appreciated the information about that drug bust 6 blocks away from where I live. Because of it I was able to make efforts to keep my family safe.” Or perhaps it was, “Thanks for the story about the intersection at First and Main. We need to bring that up at council.” Because you didn’t support him/her they couldn’t make a living doing what nature has designed them for and they’re now a cashier at WalMart ………. Or driving a garbage truck. And now you can’t find out anything about what’s happening in your town/neighborhood/district. All you get is the sensationalism of headlines --- sometimes hav...

  Heat Waves, a Mirage, a Vision But in reality, a Void Loving Father figure and TV star. It started way back in 2004. Some TV executive took a failed business man and made him into a reality TV star. Oh, this business man had seen successes, but only by ignoring integrity and morality. By leaving his partners, those to whom he had originally sold many ideas, who believed in co-operative efforts and loyalty, to try and complete whatever disaster he had originally talked them into. A project that, through the manipulation of facts sounded good but proved to be impossible under those circumstances offered by reality. So, this new reality TV star led business graduates and real-estate agents through a variety of tasks that were often mean and impossible. On the rare occasions when they actually achieved success – seldom completely but often partially due to actual intelligence and tenacity superior to the host’s – they were instructed to “Move on to the next phase.” However, mos...

The Eleventh Hour  It is time, once again, to remember that for those things worthwhile, such as the safety and security of our loved ones and  descendants, it is often necessary to work and fight right to the Eleventh hour of the Eleventh day of the Eleventh month. Here is a story and a poem, both of which  I've posted before on Remembrance Day and are also included in my short story collection "People of the West: A short story timeline". You can find a link to that by clicking on the right half of a picture of me on the right side of the screen. The collection is also available as an audio  (narrated by the author, which, surprise, surprise, is me) which you can download to your phone, tablet or computer and listen to while your working, driving down the road or simply laying in the sun. The Battle of Britain story is my rendering of the story originally related to me by the main character whose name was mot Harry Burnside. The poem is something I created from a s...

         Why Would You Write That CRAP Reconstructed Viking Longhouse  I believe that the building of the Canada that exists today was as exciting as the building of any country in the world. Filled with explorers and builders who had the same human phobias, characteristics and destructive urges as people anywhere and at any time. And those pioneers in whatever field they happened to be pioneering, made some great advancements that in many cases are shared by peoples around the world to the benefit of all.           However, the recording of, presentation of and acknowledgment of these inventions, developments or improvements by those pioneers are often underplayed and sometimes not acknowledged at all. Sometimes discoveries made by Canadians are attributed to peoples who had nothing to do with this development. Fort Victoria, Colony of British Columbia, 1864       ...

  IDF soldiers return to northern border   There seems to be a serious effort afoot in both Europe and North America to stop the sale of weapons to Israel. Who is going to stop disrupters, haters and extremists in Iran, Somalia, India, North Korea and China from selling weapons to Hamas thugs, Hezbollah and other Palestinian terrorists? Hezbollah missile system in Southern Lebanon Has everyone forgotten that Palestine was a British creation, an attempt to maintain some control in the Middle East and ensure access to the Suez Canal? That Britain was forced by Jewish militants to relinquish control of the area to those it had been taken from centuries before? That area never was Palestinian . It was British for a time – a very short time in relation to the history of the area – and those directing the British government at the time put some local tribes they thought they could control in charge. However, several years of insurgence, terrorism and strife from the people wh...

 Grady MacTavish and the crew at MacWood Productions, with some background from Dawson Creek's "Walter Wright Pioneer Village" put together a book trailer for my oldest published novel and here it is. Grady wrote a narration script for me to read and I see it as a good production that explains the basics of the story. The story/novel in question is "The Great Liquor War" but the sequel to it, "Homesteader: Finding Sharon" is also available as an audio. I'm also recording "Partners" - should be available by mid-June and "Wester People: A Short Story Timeline", hopefully available by July 15, 2024. I had this done to kick off the audio version. Yes, it is the oldest published novel, but it has only recently been released as an audio - narrated by the author. Apparently there are many listeners of audio novels out there including a bunch of commercial drivers, a group that I was part of for twenty two years before I retired. Yes, I...

I can't get over anyone having the gall to make these claims and the stupidity of Canadians to suck this crap in. It's no wonder people (well, 30% anyway) have been accepting the actions of the Federal Liberal party and voting for them. After listening to the twisted logic of Hamas Justine aTruedope might even sound logical. The Palastinians launched a sneaky, no-warning attack on non-,military targets and killed a couple of thousand people and it's Israel's fault. ?????????? Where are the umpires? Where is the Geneva Convention? The world has come to know that the UN is an ineffective waste of money, but surely they can at least make some noise.   Beam me up Mister Spock. Logic has died.