Eating my words

            Surprise, surprise, I was wrong again. The Harper Cons got their majority, the NDP won Quebec, the Bloque was destroyed and the Liberals couldn't even elect their leader. I was close forecasting the NDP would do well in Quebec. Ah well, I even lost my own vote when my riding went solidly blue.

             Enough said about the election. Que sera, sera as they say in France. 

             So the Yanks got Osama. Yeah, but will the future call his death murder. State sponsored killing is usually done after a trial. I suppose Osama was tried in the court of public opinion but it is frightening to think that a government like the American government can swoop in on someone in a foreign state and kill him or her in cold blood. Am I being naive? James Bond did it for England all the time in the movies.

            Lil and I spent a couple of weeks at Marea del Porteo Hotel in Cuba.Well, I spent a week there and she stayed on. Cuba was very hot and the sun shone strongly in the clear blue sky. It was nice to be there for a few days. It seemed to me living conditions at least for some people were better than I've seen before. There were many more new homes under construction or recently built and some were painted quite nicely on the exterior. Some homes even had a car parked in the driveway. Don't think it is like here. Cuba is still a much different place and generally primitive by our standards. 

            Lil and I had taken a cruise in February on a beautiful ship sailing from Fort Lauderdale and basically circumnavigating Cuba stopping in Jamaica and Mexico and a couple of other places. It is not possible to compare other places to Cuba from the deck of a cruise liner. It was definitely a nice voyage though and we will likely do it again sometime.

           Later then.