Friday, Monday Blogging

Okay, catch-up blogging once again and right as we are mid-stream in giving the show a bit of a make-over. Let us know what you think of the change in tone. Truth is I could no longer afford to invest myself in the stories I cover; have to admit I take a lot of it personally. So onwards and upwards with more humor, more Canadian news (you have no idea how hard that is!) and a more neutral stance on all the crazy from south of the border.

Getting to the stories I covered on Friday and today, here are the links: Starting with Eric Cantor's idiotic claim that  Democrats were exploiting the threats they'd received from mad teabaggers during their tsunami of hate and stupidiity following the health care vote http://bit.ly/diIoFc Even an MSM lackey like Time Magazine sees the GOP response to violence and threats as being underwhelming http://bit.ly/dlM7Pc And Paul Krugman of the NYYT's sees the rhetoric as being eliminationist http://nyti.ms/bIoGAL A David Neiwet term - He's a regular contributor over at one of our favorite blogs http://crooksandliars.com/ And here's a report from another of my favorite blogs on some republican guy comparing Nancy Pelosi to Saddam and Mugabe http://bit.ly/bUquC9

A http://www.truthout.org/ report on teaparty founder Dick Armey's questionable past and his founding of the dick army http://bit.ly/dcKz1u A member in good standing of said dick army a violent ignorant pig who goes by the name of Ted Nugent http://bit.ly/dkxs4d

In Canadian political news, the Liberals held a "Thinkers Conference" (don't get me started!) http://bit.ly/aJoWOH and their ideas and the manner in which they teleconferenced has "changed Canadian politics forever" Michael Ignatieff proudly overstated http://bit.ly/bs1Uic (hubris anyone?) Unfortunately the governing Torries are even bigger jerks and will play politics with any issue http://bit.ly/do4n15

Hopefully this is a fight the environmentalists win as they try to prevent an oil pipeline from the tar sands through a protected old growth forrest in BC to the Pacific http://bit.ly/dsTYbN A story about the 9 Biggest problems facing our Oceans http://huff.to/bqBs2N And BPA in ocean eco-system now a problem http://bit.ly/anOBzl

Here's a BBC report on Gorillas at risk of extinction in the near future http://bit.ly/9HcYxq The importance of water in all our lives cannot be understated http://bit.ly/9wLca4

The Church abuse and Vatican cover-up scandal reaches Canada http://bit.ly/aW67N3 And pity the pope, he's had it so rough this week http://bit.ly/aCKXgf mean old press!

And a story about California maybbe legalizing marijuana for real this time! http://ow.ly/1rQGU

Talk tomorrow!