Abandoned Stuff by Saskboy

This whole Conservative “attack Dion” ad campaign smells like it came from the basement of a Blogging Tory who lives with their Mom. And not an old disabled Mom they care for either.

Check out the editorial cartoon on Olaf’s blog. And BPOC takes a swipe at the copyright-infringing ad too.

I just have to sit back and chuckle at how ridiculous it is at this point to say Dion would be a greater champion of the environmental issues, when his Liberal government did the disservice that chased me away from the party in part, in the 1990s and ’00s. The Liberals and Conservatives aren’t getting my vote on the environment no matter what spin they sow.

- A sign seen in my apartment building.
It reads, “A heater is not a shelf for junk mail. Kindly, stop trying to burn our apartment down please.

The Charles Adler show on the radio today featured a scientist from MIT. He was interesting to listen to, as he was rational, and not speaking in hyperbole. His overriding point, which I think Adler tried to dance around, was that the potential for global floods from ice melting is indisputably present, and we’re wise to save natural resources by being more efficient in any case. It’s like buying insurance on your house; you’ll remove combustibles from the basement and make sure your electrical wiring is up to code even though you’re “covered” if something happens.

That’s the problem with “climate change deniers” (a term Adler recoils from because it sounds like marketing hyperbole to his tender ears). Some may actually have researched things, and in their experience ice may be growing in their geographical area of study, so they are skeptical. But their research is being twisted into an agenda against modernizing our transportation and industrial systems. It’s technically OK to deny that the world will flood in the next 40 years if we don’t reduce our carbon emissions, since it might be in 100 years or longer. (The MIT scientist admitted some rightly feel we may have passed the critical emissions point already!) However, the problem comes from people using that doubt in the future, to write off the future by continuing to behave in obviously destructive ways.

Too many North Americans buy the lie that there’s nothing we can do about environmental change. There are easy things we can do every day. There are also things the government can do to ensure positive change, without causing a net loss in jobs.

I heard this as I was driving past Cupar today, a bit after Earl Grey.

The road is Highway 22, but don’t let the name fool you, the NDP government converted the highway to gravel, and there’s now no well paved route between Highway 20 and Yorkton.

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Bush jokes about running the press over.
The amazing thing is that Bush didn’t wind up shooting someone before Cheney got to doing it. That lunatic would point a gun at someone as a joke, grinning like a fool.

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Hat Tip to Dave