So, Mike and I are about as conservative as they come, but we’ve been doing some crazy things lately.

Like using canvas bags for shopping. When I go to Garage Sales, I try to snap up as much as I can. They usually go for 5 cents or so. This is after Wal-Mart the other day:

We also have a garden that we haven’t put any type of pesticides on. We’re starting to get real vegetables from it! We even put our grass clippings and discarded foods (apple cores, potato peels, etc.) in a compost bin.

Mike has been biking to work 3 days a week. We’re saving a bunch of money, and he’s getting in pretty good shape.

We also stacking our newspapers together and actually recycling them!

Now, if the Wittmanns can do it, I know you can!

A video came out yesterday showing a then-16 year old Canadian, Omar Khadr, being questioned by Canadian Military Officials while being held at Guantanamo Bay prison camp for throwing a hand grenade that killed a U.S. soldier during a fight in Afghanistan in 2002. He was 15 at the time.

In the video, the “boy” was crying for help while he was being interrogated.

His lawyers received the video from U.S. officials at Guantanamo Bay, which until recently was labeled “secret”, then released about 10 minutes from the 7 hour video. I personally watched the 10 minute video at CNN.com.

The boy’s own family has said repeatedly that he has strong al Qaeda ties and sympathies. Look, I know that the boy is probably scared, but I really do think that’s best. If he was “man” enough to be fighting in Afghanistan and killed someone, then shouldn’t he be “man” enough to answer some questions?

Human rights groups, like Amnesty International, has called for his immediate release because he isn’t being treated fairly.

Is it fair that he killed a U.S. Soldier who was trying to make him free?

Since he is a young man, I think that our Intelligence should try to get as much information out of him as they can. I think that he has a life ahead of him that he can turn around. I mean, everyone wants to catch Bin Laden and take down al Qaeda, right?

I’m tired of people’s “rights”. Why does this kid have the right to a plush bed and a warm house and any comfort at all when he chose to fight in a grown up war?