Eight Nobel Peace Prize winners write Harper to oppose oilsands expansion - Winnipeg Free Press
Can we be more directed by the smart and virtuous, less the destructive and rich?
Here's a great comment to the article:
"...While I understand society has created dependance on oil and gas, I wish our PM would focus more on the future of green energy initiatives... it is a lucritive market with future potential to become the backbone of the Canadian economy... we still need oil and gas to survive, but in the meantime, we should be doing more to get rid of it and move onto something else... not doing more to keep everything the same..."
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms As GOP Bends To Will Of Tea Party | Fox News
Obama Adviser: Shutdown Looms As GOP Bends To Will Of Tea Party | Fox News
Really, this is our new form of governance?
Really, this is our new form of governance?
Friday, September 23, 2011
Idiocy and Advocacy on the Environment - NYTimes.com
Idiocy and Advocacy on the Environment - NYTimes.com
"...Some of the leading Republican presidential candidates, stuffed with the best bad science that oil and coal companies can buy, continue to insist that global warming is a hoax. No matter that an overwhelming majority of climate scientists have long concluded that the earth is changing in a dangerous way, the deniers have found a home in Bachmann’s party....
...With climate change, it’s easy to follow the money that bought the nutty opinions: big coal-burning utilities have the most to lose in the effort to curb greenhouse gases, and have been purchasing opinion and politicians as the urgency has increased...."
"...Some of the leading Republican presidential candidates, stuffed with the best bad science that oil and coal companies can buy, continue to insist that global warming is a hoax. No matter that an overwhelming majority of climate scientists have long concluded that the earth is changing in a dangerous way, the deniers have found a home in Bachmann’s party....
...With climate change, it’s easy to follow the money that bought the nutty opinions: big coal-burning utilities have the most to lose in the effort to curb greenhouse gases, and have been purchasing opinion and politicians as the urgency has increased...."
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Gutsy wrangler, huge horse save boy from charging grizzly
Spokesman.com - Sept. 18, 2011
Great story about human-wildlife interface, and the will to protect life.
Great story about human-wildlife interface, and the will to protect life.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
This is the Congress, GOP Moment of Early Millenium Reckoning
Are We Going to Roll Up Our Sleeves or Limp On? - NYTimes.com
This looks at the inaction of Congress, and the blocking of the Republican Party, to address our nation's ills.
Mark this article or bookmark this page link in RED.
Revisit it in the future and see, which way did we turn? Did America pull together?
"...We can either roll up our sleeves and do what’s needed to overcome our post-cold war excesses and adapt to the demands of the 21st century or we can just keep limping into the future.
This looks at the inaction of Congress, and the blocking of the Republican Party, to address our nation's ills.
Mark this article or bookmark this page link in RED.
Revisit it in the future and see, which way did we turn? Did America pull together?
"...We can either roll up our sleeves and do what’s needed to overcome our post-cold war excesses and adapt to the demands of the 21st century or we can just keep limping into the future.
Given those stark choices, one would hope that our politicians would rise to the challenge by putting forth fair and credible recovery proposals that match the scale of our debt problem and contain the three elements that any serious plan must have: spending cuts, increases in revenues and investments in the sources of our strength. But that, alas, is not what we’re getting, which is why there remains an opening for an independent Third Party candidate in the 2012 campaign....
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
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