Harper: First the Song, Now the Dance
Just caught a few moments of Steve Paikins show “Agenda on TVO”. Some of the brightest scientific minds we’regathered to share their knowledge about space exploration.
Are We Bound For Space? Please check it out, it was fascinating , to say the least… www.tvo.org
Available as a podcast!!!
By Gwendolyn -
When someone as respected and intelligent as Steve Paikin thinks Harper play-acting little scenes dreamed up by the Harris’ guerrilla gang to be worthy of comment, I despair for my beloved country. As I despaired when I watched seniors and serious financial advisers trust Mr. Harper’s promise to protect Income Trusts, even though their instincts and experience told them that this was a retirement option that was threatening the tax system; and when I listened to Mr. Harper’s misinformation-and-ignorance-coated analyses of the shift of the cost of pollution from the backs of taxpayers to the purses of polluters; and last week as the Conservatives tried to paint their propaganda cheques as similar to the Liberal’s desperate, but scandalously handled efforts to keep Canada unified (both efforts were successful, but I can respect the motives behind the one less than admirable action; not so much the other). If one must write about Mr. Harper, at least step back and put it in context. His advice that the Liberals “get out there and make something happen ” seems strange coming from a man who seems determined to stop things from happening. Nothing must happen to save the earth from climate change; no Canadian may be protected or brought home (without a court order); no research may be supported that might take us successfully into the future (research money is reserved for the oil industry, yesterday’s legacy). No promise made may be allowed to be kept, whether it be for transparency, accountability, responsible fiscal management, co-operative democratic process, scheduled election dates— the list goes on. On second thought, I guess Steve had to write about Harper’s empty message. There isn’t much else. But why waste the ink? Even more important, why waste an intelligent man’s time writing about nothing. It reminds one of all the press about Sarah Palin. It invariable made the reader feel smugly superior or smugly censorious. Or was that Steve’s (clever!)reason? continued …
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