‘Bird genes’ keep 87-year-old Walter Mueller in full flight

Written by CRYSTAL RHYNO - Herald-Tribune staff

Grace and Walter Mueller

Even his wife, Grace, says during his creation some extras must have been thrown in for good measure, but the octogenarian himself sums it up best.

“During evolution there must have been some bird genes put into my system,” laughed Mueller, from his home in Mission Heights.

At 87, Mueller could very well be one of the oldest glider pilots in the Peace Country – he holds that honour in the Grande Prairie Soaring Society. But that matters little as he is just as agile and active as those half his age.

“Slow down? Not yet,” he chuckled some more. “I am still pretty fit.”

Recently Mueller did experience something that will make for conversation fodder for years to come.

Harper shows his true colours & his contempt for the Canadian justice system.

Children of bad people don't deserve justice!

This is not a surprise, but what Harper said yesterday about why the US should continue to deal with Khadr seems to me to show his utter contempt in the Canadian justice system:

He argued that the special U.S. military trial that Mr. Khadr faces – in which he does not have the same standard of legal representation and rights he would in an ordinary criminal trial – is the only way he could be brought to answer the charges against him…”frankly, we do not have a real alternative to that process now to get to the truth about those accusations”