Divers and Sundry.

Up to 30.6 yesterday, some balmy night too. Temperature dropping like a rock this morning though down to 9, light rain falling, nice.

Sad about the incident yesterday, the family had to ID the clothes, must have been very traumatic for them, our condolences go out to them.
Nothing official yet, or on CBC, so will leave things at that.
Mindless rumor mongering and inaccurate information distribution can have a detrimental effect on people, pity some mindless arsholes would not think about that before putting their mouths in gear.

Life goes on as they say. In that vain, some ‘food by mail’ made it to at least one of the stores yesterday. Charged down there as soon as I heard. What was there was in fair to good condition, things like corn, lettuce, mushrooms, celery, strawberries, cherries, tomatoes [my fav] and other items. Enough to satisfy mosts hunger for some variety and freshness in foods. People were coming in at a constant rate, one teacher remarked that it’s the first time she has been able to get to the fresh food before all that was left was the dregs, holidays are good in more ways that one.
Not sure if the other store I use had any come in, will check it out today. To be fair, there is a third store that had fresh foods come in on Wednesday, alas I do not patronize that one, long story.

I’m getting a bit pissed by the reaction by some and media coverage of the ‘evacuation’ going on in Lebanon. I won’t get into the rights and wrongs of the whole conflict, plenty of those on both sides of the issue.
It bugs me to see well fed, fit looking people bitching no end over having to spend 15 hours on a modern cruise ship used in their escape from Lebanon. Many Lebanon/western county people seem to have no thanks in them. Seems like most counties responded fairly well, many modern vessels and planes used, many military ships and planes used for defense and evacuation, even what is describes as Stephen Harpers plane brought some back. Here I was under the impression that it was Canada’s plane, but I digress.
Looking at these images and reading the stories I can’t help but think about the on going atrocities in many other parts of the world. Places like Sudan/Darfur, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Congo, the east African nations, and on and on. Where the hell is the Western Governments flotilla of cruise ships and Military might? Where the hell is the western media blanket coverage of the hunger, rapes, mutilations and murder that has been going on for years.

Angry in the great steamy north I am.