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Sunday night, bright stars and the smell of gun powder in the air

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It's clear that when it comes to late night fireworks in residential areas there is no one enforcing the law banning festive explosives in populated areas, perhaps those doing the enforcing are busy with other matters to care if we get enough sleep or not. It is clear that in Lebanon some people have money to burn while others starve. It is also clear that those celebrating on Sunday night do not have to get up and go to work early Monday morning. What is needed is someone to tell those spoilt little rich kids in no uncertain terms that the party is over. What is needed is a radical redistribution of wealth away from the pockets of the idle rich and spread it around a little. The weekend fireworks budget alone could help pay off a sizable portion of our national debt. Every so often I make it a point to visit the North of Lebanon to remember how beautiful that part of the country really is but also to remember how underdeveloped it is, unjustly so. I am always reminded by friends t...

Weather Facts

The Weather Channel keeps getting it wrong. If you believe what they tell you temperatures in Beirut continue to hover at around 36 degrees Celcius, while in Tel Aviv it's 31 and 32. The folks at TWC seem intent on discouraging the few tourists still willing to come to Lebanon from doing so. The truth is the weather is a mild 32 and is expected to go down to 30 in a couple of days which is fortunate since the cooler weather will coincide with the start of Eid al Fitr. My question is: is TWC making an honest mistake or is it intentional and intended to funnel foreign tourists away from Lebanon to Israel?