I think I'll take a break for a few days. I spent too much time this morning trying to find a clever way to frame that first sentence but the words just weren't there.
Time to take a breather, to take stock. The events of the past few weeks; the mountains of deception, duplicity, evasion and manipulation; the scandals from legislatures to Toronto City Hall, the Senate and the Prime Minister's Office, Elections Canada, the RCMP, one dodgy Harper associate after another - it's just too dispiriting to go at without a break.
Harper said we'd never recognize Canada when he's done with it but he never explained that was because he planned to cover it in his own filth.
Time to step away, take a break.
Back in a few.
21 comments:
Thanks for your work. You do what reporters should be doing.
I hope am few days hiatus will refresh and that you will be writing again soon
Enjoy your break, try and have some fun!
Mound, I wish you the best. I read your blog regularly and I have learned a lot from you. Rest and relaxation is important but don't let these idiots get you down.
Enjoy your break, Mound. Sometimes it does get to be too much, and a hiatus is restorative. You will know when to resume.
You have to recharge sometimes, Mound. Enjoy the holiday.
I hope you enjoy your break, too MoS.
I'll miss your stuff.
Here's a link.. to refresh you Mound ..
Its as far removed from the shite in Ottawalberta
as ... well, uh ... transient orca are from Peter Van Loan
Its about heroism, risking all for folks in need
And set on the east coast .. early Canada eh .. bye !
http://thedespatch.wordpress.com/
Thanks for the timely, exemplary reportage & insights ! The rapid, accurate, often scathing analysis .. & links to the source documents
Most of all .. thanks for being a Canadian exemplar
a glowing heart.. and generous, learned.. patriot
Like the rest of the exceptional indy journalists..
you're needed dude ...
Take care MoS. Sometimes we really do need to walk away from the filth and despair just to re-energize and see what is positive and pleasing and worth still fighting for when we feel stronger.
Look after yourself and only come back if you're sure you want to, not because you think you should.
I hear you, good luck, the hardest part about caring about politics these days is the emotional toil watching all of this takes on you. I so miss the days when simple monetary corruption was the big thing in political corruption, while infuriating you didn't have to worry that the future of the nation was at serious risk, unlike these days. Hope your return time isn't as long as my two year hiatus was, you are too good at this to not be profoundly missed if that were the case, unlike myself. Take care and be well.
Take care mound, will miss your prolific posts so please rest up and return because you really give me my "thought for the day" on a regular basis. My one key take away from this week was finally seeing that Tom Mulcair has our back when he gave harper the long overdue grilling that we've been waiting for. The best part was watching harper sink so desperately low when he attempted (quite unsuccessfully) to turn the tables on Tom but he wasn't having it. Rob Ford is just window dressing compared to the big boys scrambling to capture a shred of their rapidly disappearing credibility.
Thanks for your kind thoughts, everybody. Relax, I'm not in freefall. I didn't mean to cause alarm. I've been writing a lot recently on this blog and elsewhere.
A diet too rich in Harper is not a good thing - for anyone.
Right bc:
Its nice to see Mulcair abandon faux outrage and bluster for real opposition. Quite refreshing to see him using those pins to skewer Harper like an particularly ugly beetle being readied for a museum exibit.
Man cannot live on Ottawa Horseshit alone.
On reflection, it could be either a stink beetle or a dung beetle. Now that Harper has forbidden scientists to talk, we will never know.
Have a great vacation.
one bit of goodnews BC turned down northern gateway. So provincially a bit of a rainbow in the storm:)
and next week in toronto we might see Mayor Slurpy take over for Ford.
Have a good rest and hope things are improving...but I guess politics is like the weather, tornadoes one day sun the next and the ever constant threat of rain.
Hi.
@deb Scott
I agree, it's awesome news, but I wonder how much of it is the sitting gov't playing politics with the issue-- giving the appearance of being firm now, caving later.
The BC LIbs will be opposed to the Gateway pipeline until Crusty Clark has her seat - no matter what Clark, Harper and the rest think, Gateway won't be happening, so get to work on pipelines east, or south, or take the crap to Burrard Inlet via enlarged Kinder Morgan, it is already pretty well f**ked over!
@anonymous
yeah I was worried that its for show, I am just crossing my fingers that first nations stand strong and the rest of us can support them. Christy is not trustworthy and its a negotiation with her...more money!
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