It’s hard to believe it’s still raining considering that it’s been doing so for 2 weeks. Not only is it depressing but it really cramps my style of trying to get in decent shape this summer. Hard to go for a bike ride when the trails are washed out etc. The weather man is still forecasting crap for the next few days.
And in the older news category, it appears that politicians knew that Maher Arar was being tortured after his capture, but chose to downplay it. I think it’s really brutal what happened to this guy:
Arar was deported to Syria by U.S. authorities after they arrested him in the fall of 2002 on a stop-over in New York as he flew home to Canada from Tunisia.
Although our government went to bat later on for Arar, they certainly dropped the ball with his situation overall. I’m not sure why this story went away so fast - a Canadian citizen with Canadian passport ‘deported’ to Syria by the US? I hope the situation is that I don’t know all the facts, not that this happened and got washed over within a month.
And now it seems the hippies are protesting the upgrades at various CANDU reactors across the country. Instead of nuclear energy, they suggest greener options like wind farms or tidal waves or volcanoes. It’s very easy to suggest outlandish power generation options like this when you do not have to provide monetary justification. As a addendum to their suggestions I’d also like to suggest that the government also build a city on the moon and build a pipeline to jupiter to harvest it’s Hydrogen for use in automobiles.
Finally, I’d like to openly say that the ACLU is one of the most sensible nonprofit organizations to support in the USA. Their opposition of the ‘Patriot Act 2′ is bang-on in my opinion. Despite the media OVER-reporting and hype of war and
judge shootings, people should not forget to keep a watch on the homefront. Homeland security DNE increased personal freedoms. Remember that, and don’t get distracted.
