It's the little things

It truly is, isn't it?

As Rick pointed out today, it's a pretty sad state of affairs when someone calls to compliment a guest on answering a question. Speaking of Constable Mark Young, what a nice person, so well-spoken and someone who sounds very passionate about his job. I enjoyed listening to him today, along with the professor and the mother of the daughter at Virginia Tech. I may be biased, but I thought the whole show was excellent today.

I was riveted but sickened listening to Rick reading the recounting of the events from the student in Jocelyne Couture-Nowak's class. Can you imagine what you would do when confronted with absolute terror? At the same time, I was moved and saddened by Rick's account of the childhood the shooter had. It's absolutely not an excuse for doing what he did, but you have to empathize with any child who is bullied and starts to hate life. Again, it's not an excuse, but I agree with Rick 100 % when he said "Bullying is a cancer".

"The planet's going to cook!"

That was a quote from Rick as he was talking to Bruce about climate change. Do you think John Baird has a point or do you think he was simply fearmongering? Brendan Haley with the Ecology Action Centre thought the latter. He was quite funny when he mentioned Baird should have just said everyone in the world will have to pay 1 MILLION DOLLARS to meet Kyoto targets!!!! There will be a cost, of course, but shouldn't we be prepared to eat a little bit of it, rather than eventually just die off from climate change?

I'm suprised Nova Scotia Power hasn't blamed climate change for an outage, I mean, it's so topical. We had some excellent suggestions for future excuses too:

-Bovine flatulence (thanks Ben!!)
-excess bird excretement
-time change
-Heather Foley-Melvin decided to start conserving energy by actually shutting the power off (thanks to Deb at www.halifaxlive.com for that one!!!)

This particular exercise was so amusing all day, as I told some people back home about the wily power-outage causing raccoon and they nearly died laughing.

I want to say hi to my Grandpa Joe in Windsor, Ontario who is reading this after getting out of the hospital today! You're the best.

Next week promises to be another good one - Peter Duffy on Thursday!

Have an awesome weekend!

Amber