You've already been informed of my piercing hatred for the National Post. I feel like a battered wife. I despise it and everyone who writes for it so much, yet it keeps showing up on my doorstep, and I keep letting it in. What is my problem?
The above the fold headline this morning was, and I quote "The Herbicide Report Nobody Noticed (It Said It Was Safe)." Unhuh. This coupled with the report Stevo showed me last night on the CBC, re: the federal government's decision to quietly allow mining companies to dump their tailings in northern lakes in BC, Newfoundland, Alberta and Saskatchewan, makes me want to vomit. Oh, by the way, on the last point, Mr. Baird and his pals in the federal environment ministry are bypassing the consultation and environmental assessment usually required to reclassify natural spaces into dumping grounds. That's reform party grass roots demon-cracy for ya. Grass roots if you have deep pockets and are willing to grease a few palms.
We are heading toward a world water crisis with the onslaught of global warming. And our friends in the federal government and at the National Post think it's A-O-K to dump herbicides on our green green grass (which by the way, will be brown brown when we run out of water) and surrounding groundwater, and tar sluice in our lakes.
Stevo has a great suggestion to perhaps snap them out of their stupidity - serve them all up a nice tall glass of water sourced from the very sites they wish to pollute, assuring them of the purity and continued safety of what they're about to ingest. I say let's just serve them a nice tall glass of shut the fuck up, with a chaser of get the hell out of my government.
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