Desmond McGrath column
Desmond is a Petroleum Engineer by training with a BSc. (Honors) from Montana Tech as well as two technical diplomas in the area of Hydraulics, Instrumentation and Petroleum Technology.
He hails originally from the former Nation of Newfoundland, which was forced into a union with Canada to become the 10th province in 1949. He comes from a long family line of Engineers, Lawyers, Doctors, and others with a working man's Ph.D.
Family members, for example, include one who was with Churchill and Roosevelt when they signed the Atlantic Charter and another who worked closely with Cyrus Field engineering and laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable in the 1850's. Others who fought in major and decisive battles of the First and Second World Wars.
He has an extensive collection of rare books inherited from these ancestors, including similar editions that the signatories of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States drew inspiration from for their divinely inspired work. He has traveled and worked extensively around the world and now makes his home amongst the Cajuns along the bayous of South Louisiana.
In addition to his engineering career, he is an inventor, avid photographer, writer, political activist and rebel without a pause – sometimes taking time out to tinker with the occasional vintage motorcycle.
He hails originally from the former Nation of Newfoundland, which was forced into a union with Canada to become the 10th province in 1949. He comes from a long family line of Engineers, Lawyers, Doctors, and others with a working man's Ph.D.
Family members, for example, include one who was with Churchill and Roosevelt when they signed the Atlantic Charter and another who worked closely with Cyrus Field engineering and laying the first transatlantic telegraph cable in the 1850's. Others who fought in major and decisive battles of the First and Second World Wars.
He has an extensive collection of rare books inherited from these ancestors, including similar editions that the signatories of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States drew inspiration from for their divinely inspired work. He has traveled and worked extensively around the world and now makes his home amongst the Cajuns along the bayous of South Louisiana.
In addition to his engineering career, he is an inventor, avid photographer, writer, political activist and rebel without a pause – sometimes taking time out to tinker with the occasional vintage motorcycle.
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November 3, 2024
I am back on the Island of my birth, Newfoundland, for 5 weeks after my mother’s memorial service. She passed in Florida last April, but late September was . . .
Desmond McGrath
May 1, 2023
Many inside sovereign states, like America, Canada, and Australia as prime examples, do not understand the concept of separation of powers and are oblivious to . . .
Desmond McGrath
February 24, 2022
While Justin Turd’eau (Spelling intentional aka ‘Something Is Rotten in the State of Denmark’) invokes the “Swastika Flag” gambit unable to . . .
Desmond McGrath
January 19, 2021
Hungarian Revolution 2021: Reichstag Fire 2.0: a 5-year coup d'état
When I woke to the following threat (Fig. 1) from John O. Brennan, Obama’s Felix . . .
Desmond McGrath
November 15, 2020
Foreward: Revised Nov 16 with more footnotes to challenge the Fact Checkers. Please read again.
With apologies to George Orwell, I was prompted to put this . . .
Desmond McGrath
November 11, 2020
Foreword: I received greater feedback on 2 Liberty’s twilight – epilogue than 1 Liberty’s twilight (If you have not read them, I suggest you do). . . .
Desmond McGrath
November 2, 2020
I received a great deal of feedback On Liberty’s Twilight and since it was published there have been daily revelations about the alleged Biden Crime Family . . .
Desmond McGrath
October 21, 2020
During the Kavanaugh hearings, Lindsey Graham famously quipped "Boy, y’all want power; God, I hope you never get it," and "This is the most unethical sham . . .
Desmond McGrath
August 23, 2020
If you have not read Part 2, read it HERE. Part 1, read it HERE
Preface:
I have been sitting on finishing Part III of this series at the 7000 word level . . .
Desmond McGrath
July 28, 2020
Note to American and Canadian readers who know little about Newfoundland I suggest you read the forward in “The Donald phenomena, human Molotov Cocktail” . . .
Desmond McGrath
April 18, 2020
VIDEO LINK HERE
If you have not seen it Please Watch It First!
If you have not read Part I it is Here:
Foreword:
This was originally started as a . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 19, 2020
When the former meets the later, the first casualty is the truth!
I had been paying attention to this virus outbreak since news of it started to pop up . . .
Desmond McGrath
February 4, 2020
What Pelosi, Schiff, Nadler and the Squad could learn from the Red Baron.
While in no way impugning the stature and flying skills of Manfred von Richthofen . . .
Desmond McGrath
January 31, 2020
A friend Marilyn from Newfoundland I have known for 40+ years, a staunch anti-Trump person asked me What do I think Donald J Trump is in Politics for? There was . . .
Desmond McGrath
January 9, 2020
In the short aftermath of the surgical precision with which the world was rid of the evil terror mastermind was the predictable apoplectic response from the . . .
Desmond McGrath
November 15, 2019
Foreword to American Readers: Don Cherry was well known to Hockey Fans on both sides of the border long before his 38-year stint on Hockey Night in Canada . . .
Desmond McGrath
July 6, 2019
I thought long and hard about that title, wondering what my late friend and Civil Rights Champion, Lanier Phillips would have to say about it. In final analysis . . .
Desmond McGrath
January 15, 2019
The Invasion at the US Southern Border is not what it seems.
"Make sure it doesn't happen to you, Think for Yourselves. Remember Evil is always around... don . . .
Desmond McGrath
October 8, 2018
Like Daniel Boone, Brett Kavanaugh has successfully 'Run the Gauntlet' however the "Chuckie" Schumer's, Franken-Feinstein's and Crypt creatures of the River . . .
Desmond McGrath
September 30, 2018
With apologies to Don McClean's American Pie, his musical eulogy to Buddy Holly, Brett Kavanaugh's opening remarks at the Salem Witch Trials masquerading as the . . .
Desmond McGrath
April 1, 2018
Re:Parkland students guest edit Guardian US: Our manifesto to fix America's gun laws
Foreword: attempting brevity, I have not dated or acknowledged the . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 20, 2018
Zero tolerance – "refusal to accept antisocial behavior, typically by strict and uncompromising application of the law."
As discussed in my last . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 11, 2018
What do the Dunblane, Port Authur, Sandy Hook, and Parkland Shootings all have in common?
After the Sandy Hook incident, I wrote a piece "The gathering storm . . .
Desmond McGrath
May 31, 2017
I am deeply saddened by the fact that my planned Memorial Day photographic excursion around the Crescent City was preempted by the dismal prospect of seeing . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 18, 2017
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3100 Ridgeway Drive, Suite 35
Mississauga, Ontario
L5L 5M5
Telephone: 905-820-8814
Fax: 905-820-4068
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Desmond McGrath
November 21, 2016
Foreword: I wonder how many of those who are constantly internalizing and intensifying the hateful rhetoric, protests and violence over Donald Trump's victory . . .
Desmond McGrath
November 6, 2016
This opinion piece just shows what a pathetic propaganda rag you have become.
When I first saw this I thought it might be some brilliant satire along the . . .
Desmond McGrath
October 28, 2016
Foreword American Readers: My birthplace the former Dominion of Newfoundland, was once full of Independent and self-reliant men and women who were not afraid to . . .
Desmond McGrath
November 15, 2015
Prologue: I wrote this article in early August and distributed it in Aug 17 2015 for review to a few friends who concluded it was a bit too long and a bit off . . .
Desmond McGrath
June 2, 2015
I must start this discussion stating that I have several gay friends with whom I grew up, we hung out as teenagers, partied together, rode motorcycles . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 27, 2015
Since arriving in Singapore this past September for my latest project here I had thought of the idea of seeing if I could get an opportunity to interview Mr . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 21, 2015
Dear Sir;
I have been an aficionado of your writings for longer than I remember and met you briefly in person on two occasions where you were speaking in the . . .
Desmond McGrath
January 10, 2015
With apologies to Marcel Proust, the true horror of what transpired in Paris in the offices of Charlie Hebdo did not strike home until I saw the photo of . . .
Desmond McGrath
August 6, 2014
Dear Mr. O'Reilly
While watching your show last night I was taken aback by the statement by Steven Bucci Ph.D., Director, Douglas and Sarah Allison Center . . .
Desmond McGrath
July 16, 2014
I started reporting on the current problem with the southern border and the invasion of minors from the Rio Grande Valley, one of the areas hit hard by this . . .
Desmond McGrath
June 5, 2014
It would appear that the ghost of Rahm Emanuel, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," is still rattling the chains of administrations past in the . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 15, 2014
Those words were uttered by a store clerk when he noticed me taking the following photograph in the store where he was working part time in for his cousin in a . . .
Desmond McGrath
October 19, 2013
Updated from Oct 2012
They are just wrong about the date when they started "Cooking the Books Chicago-Style," now Obamacare will increase part-time . . .
Desmond McGrath
October 14, 2013
The thin Red White and Blue line of U.S. Veterans win skirmish against the socialist Black shirts.
It is not only exceedingly difficult to comprehend the . . .
Desmond McGrath
September 30, 2013
It's hard to believe that its 40 years ago this coming month that America was embroiled in oil embargo after the Yom Kippur War that started on Oct 6th 1973. It . . .
Desmond McGrath
September 15, 2013
They remember the enemy that the mainstream media and the white castle choose to forget.
I must say in my 40 + years of being a racer, rider and collector of . . .
Desmond McGrath
August 3, 2013
NYT Op Ed Misleading and Derisive
Just because a person calls themselves a "Republican" does that necessarily clinch the argument as if calling yourself a . . .
Desmond McGrath
July 1, 2013
Just like the Reichstag Fire, "follow the principle that when one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it. They keep up their lies, even at the risk of . . .
Desmond McGrath
June 26, 2013
Dear Gang of Eight!
I am quite saddened to see that you have truly lived up to the Maoist/Stalinist moniker that has been attributed to you, and now voted to . . .
Desmond McGrath
June 21, 2013
Disclaimer: I will say up front that some of this perspective on "Data Mining" is my hypothesis based on the limited facts that I have gleaned about this
case . . .
Desmond McGrath
June 11, 2013
Boy Scouts of America latest victim of the Socialist Takeover of America
Last week I was listening to the Denny Schaffer on WRNO in New Orleans when he was . . .
Desmond McGrath
May 3, 2013
With apologies to Fyodor Dostoyevsky I find it quite apropos since it was recently announced by the New York Times that Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 27, 2013
It seems that every day, another salvo of fear mongering is fired across the bow of America's course for energy independence by the watermelon elite of the anti . . .
Desmond McGrath
March 10, 2013
John McCain (R-AZ.),
Chuck Schumer (D-NY),
Lindsey Graham (R-SC),
Dick Durbin (D-IL.),
Marco Rubio (R-FL.),
Bob Menendez (D-NJ.),
Jeff Flake (R-AZ.),
. . .
Desmond McGrath
March 3, 2013
The comment in quotes was an under-the-breath statement I heard as I was leaving a Christmas Eve gathering at dear friends of my family in Newfoundland when my . . .
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