Friday's Horizon

Even on a Friday when the news is pretty tough to read there's always a horizon to look forward to and you can look to it and imagine that things can and will get better. It's not cock-eyed optimism rising above layers of cynicism but rather survival instincts kicking in. There's gotta' be a horizon to look forward to. A place where people act in the interests of the greater good. Where neighbors know each other and help out when things get rough. There will be some hard times ahead of us collectively but eventually our survival instincts will kick in (following a major crisis no doubt) and we'll start building and working and moving towards that brighter horizon once again. Until then though, hold onto your hats 'cause it promises to get turbulent.

The oil slick in the Gulf was the focus of a good deal of the show today. It shows the folly and some of the dangers inherent in relying on fossil fuels for all our energy needs. There are so many aspects to this story and the consequences so seemingly dire that there can be little satisfaction that it may help point us in the right direction vis-a-vis clean energy.

Here's the pics of some of the birds endangered by the spill that I promised would be here this morning. They're beautiful... this is sad.

Here's Rush Limbaugh being his usual insane self theorizing that possibly some environmentalist whackos blew up the oil rig in Loiusiana. Here, he's comparing Obama to Hitler and Soviet stle dictators.

In Canada, Syncrude lost its bid to have the charges agianst it dropped for killing 1,600 birds.

Omar Khadr is on trial in a US kangaroo court having been held and tortured in Guantanamo for about 8 years by his American captors. Stephen Harper has done nothing about protecting the rights of this Canadian citizen. You can be sure he'd do the same for you.

Okay, two reports on the same story of melting arctic sea ice, the 1st from Science Daily and the 2nd from the Guardian. More proof (if we needed any) that climate science deniers are either idiots or corporate shills. There's room for doubt as to the consequences of where all this wanton polluting of the planet and destruction of habitats and ecosystems will lead but not that the planet is warming and that we're the cause.

Finally, a story I couldn't get to this A.M. but you should take a look as it's about a Pentagon assessment that the Taliban in Afghanistan is increasing in strength. Remembber there's a looming offensive inn Kandahar and Canadians will be at the tip of the spear!

Have a great weekend, talk soon!