The commissioner says he takes full responsibility for what happened to Mr.Arar and his family. He says mistakes were made, the buck stops with him. Yet, he says he will not resign, no one else involved in the case has or been asked to, no one will be admonished, transferred, demoted, narda. In fact some of the officers involved in handling the Araar case have been promoted. Talk about the big blue machine closing ranks and protecting its own, man oh man.
Zaccardelli said that he will handle things his way, the people who made mistakes have had a talking too, my favorite is “operational guidance”.
Mean time Mr. Arar has a 400 million buck law case against the Canadian Government. Well bugger that, I think Mr. Arar deserves compensation, but not at Canadian tax payer’s expense. I think any financial compensation should come from the antagonists of Mr. Arar, let the buck stop where it should. A percentage of the nice little retirement packages of some of these cops, any politicians and bureaucrats who can be identified should anti up to compensate for there mistakes or incompetence. The Government stands behind the RCMP on this, well let those who make these statements/decisions come up with the money, if any is awarded, see how they stand behind the RCMP then.
Then last night on CNN they had this nuter Musharraf of Pakistan all over the place. I kept skipping to something else then coming back hoping he would be gone. But one flick back did provide some very funny stuff. Seems Musharraf has a book coming out soon, so CNN took his book to the streets to see if any ‘ordinary Americans’ could identify who this guy is. The usual parochial answers abounded.
But one bloke came up with a beauty. When asked if he new the author of this book, the guy hesitates, hums and hars, then says, “Yeah, I think he is related to Moo Sheriff”. This takes the reporter back a bit; she then asks the guy “who is Moo Sheriff”. “I’m not sure” says the guy, “but I think it is a cow with a lot of authority”.
Either a plant or one guy who can think on his feet, either way it cracked me up.
Came across this recipe the other day, thought it different, for us, and looked easy and only one pot used, so yesterday being busy decided to give it a go.
Pork chop, cabbage, potato. Turned out tasty, I have no baseline German cooking experience to compare it to, but I think it is on German lines, be good with dough boys [dumplings], and may try them next time. I served this with a carrot parsnip puree, mashed we call it.
Did not get below 11c last night, man that is warm for this time of year, in the evening, will see if we can break the record today, looks possible.
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