Flight

April and I are on our way home from Halifax. We woke up at 4;15 to catch the shuttle, which after a short cab ride to catch it was probably not a better deal for two adults going to the airport, than a cab would have been.

I slept through most of the five hour flight, but woke up an hour ago hungry. I brought smores with me, but they wouldn’t let me heat them up for some reason, oh well.

Yesterday we drove from the north shore of PEI, east of Shaw’s beach to the Confederation Bridge. On the way we saw three large foxes in the ditch, near our campsite in the National Park. The bridge was about $20 cheaper than the ferry anyway, and it gave us the chance to go through Amherst to visit Gerry and Inez at their apartment in the Villa. We drove south with the intention to visit the Bay of Fundy, but when we got to Parrsborough, our tourist inclination had declined to the point where we simply drove on to Halifax. We got a good deal at the Atlantica on Hotwire, booked a reservation at The Bicycle Thief restaurant, and walked down the boardwalk. The night started out cool, but got muggy as the sun came out. I walked back to the hotel after getting fuel and dropping off the rental car.

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On the plane the top story is of course the tragic shooting and bombing in Norway. When I first looked at the story on CNN the predictable comments all over it were blaming Al Qaeda, when of course this attack had no hallmark of the Islamist extremist group. The angry anti-Muslim commenters were ironically accusing their ideological brethren of the same thing he claims to have killed 100 people for – perpetuating a war with Muslims in European nations. If you take a look at the KKK in SK during the 1920s, you’ll see these sorts of culture struggles are nothing new, and neither are the whack jobs who exploit ignorance and Christian fundamentalism, and hatred to extend their twisted causes. The right wing needs to look in the mirror and ask if they are willing to again be led by madmen, into random hate killings. The USA is not untouched by this, from the Oklahoma bombing in the mid nineties, to the Giffords shooting a few months ago.