Things appear to be setting up for an amazing week of heat in Roanoke and our nation's capital. Temperatures are expected to approach one hundred degrees Fahrenheit in the next couple of days.
There's plenty of heat from world events to add to the misery, but I can't solve any of those problems .
Today the high in Halifax, Nova Scotia will be seventy eight. There is only one day this week where the temperature will rise about eighty. I suspect that will be balanced out by the day where the temperature isn't expected to make it into the seventies. What a nice way to combat the heat, natural coolness.
There's an article, "Citadel Hill in Canadian hands for 100 years," in today's Halifax paper. It was only one hundred years ago that Canada took over it's own defense.
But the date has became a symbolic signpost to mark the end of more than 150 years of British rule.
"Canada had a very small army and they had a hard time even finding a thousand soldiers to garrison Halifax, and 10 years later Canada is in the First World War and there are hundreds of thousands of Canadians in uniform," says organizer David Danskin.
"That’s a pretty impressive coming-of-age story, and 1906 is a nice point to look at and mark that."
Not only is Canada guarding itself these days, but Canadian soldiers are dying in Afghanistan. A Canadian family also was killed yesterday in the fighting in Lebanon.
While the heat from the latest heat wave may miss Canada, the heat of battle hasn't.
There have been a couple of interesting articles over the last couple of days. The first is "The Real Agenda," an editorial in the NY Times. The second would be Paul Krugman's article, "March of Folly," in today's NY Times.
May you find a cool place to read them.
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