Post Groundhog Day

Hello dere! And I'm back with the links from Tues. and Wed. shows. I believe I started Tuesday's program off with the Idahoan Baptist proselytisers attempted kidnapping of 33 children in Haiti - note that no msm article from Jan.31 failed to mention "good intentions" of the kidnappers and the false claim (uninvestigated) that all the children were either orphans or had the permission of the parents to take them away. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i5P7S2bN1qim9Se6RfLdzEHRxq3Q

Both claims have subsequently been proven to be untrue: "All of the children have been terribly traumatised," she added. "They were lied to because they were told they were going to a camp which had a soccer field and swimming pool. "The parents of these children - and there are many parents of these children - said that this is what they were told." http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cambridgeshire/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8493000/8493170.stm

My qualms are that even if you had the permission why would you take these children away from their kith and kin? Why not help these children in country if you're intentions are so fabulous and they in turn can grow up to help other Haitians. I can only conclude the real purpose is to shove Christianity down the throats of these children so that they too grow up to be proselytisers for Jeebus!

And it was Groundhog day which for some reason is a fun way to mark mid-winter (it only gets better from here on in, right?) http://houstonzooblogs.org/wildconservation/2010/02/groundhog-day/ It is important to note that a Canadian relative of Puxatawney Phil and Wiarton Willy is extremely endangered http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=dont-forget-punxsutawney-phils-enda-2010-02-02

Important news not being paid attention to by msm http://news.antiwar.com/2010/01/31/china-slams-us-arms-sales-to-taiwan/  and they're not happy about upcoming meet with Dalai Lama either: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/02/china-warns-barack-obama-dalai-lama 

And some sabre rattling in the Gulf http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60U18R20100201?type=politicsNews  which always leads to more of the same  http://bit.ly/daXN9m

Here's a great example of false equivalencies and unserious journalism from someone living off their reputation: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/opinion/31dowd.html If you watched Obama's one-sided sparring with the republicans on Friday you will note that only one side took a beating - it was not Obama and it's why the fux network stopped broadcasting the event - maureen dowd is absolutely the worst! The examples she lists do not measure up to Obama's call-out, that Republicans opposed the stimulus and then showed up at ribbon cuttings paid for by the stimulus, as one example.

We didn't get to this story today - the cowardly torries allowing the Americans to mistreat a Canadian citizen who was 17 years of age when he pulled off the battlefield of Afghanistan. In a 9-0 ruling last week, the Court found that Canada and the United States are violating Mr. Khadr's right to life, liberty and security under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but stopped short of ordering the government to ask Washington to send him home. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/bureau-blog/tories-stand-pat-on-omar-khadr/article1454636/

More chickenshit non-response from the torries on the issue of making maternal health in the developing world Canada's cause and whether or not there will  be money for those that provide acess to contraceptives and abortion http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/silver-powers/this-policy-has-nothing-to-do-with-unicorns/article1454701/

Why I love Bob Barker: http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-100105-1.html 

Lies about Nancy Pelosi http://mediamatters.org/blog/201002010038 I think there's something about her tthat makes the right crazier than normal! Could it be she's a woman?

This is sad - it's about secret Afghann prisons and more US torture allegations http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/2/americas_secret_afghan_prisons_investigation_unearths

Senator from Maine spreading lies about US Constitution and the underpants bomber http://digg.com/d31HQd0

Breaking! Glenn Blecch is out of his mind: http://mediamatters.org/research/201002020017?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

And lastly for now, one method they use to determine what the Earth's climate used to be like: http://ow.ly/11PED