Well we survived the heat wave; day after day of heat indexes above the one hundred degree mark do take a toll. It’s actually quite cool here in the garden this morning, and the ice coffee is just what the doctor ordered. I don’t see why we can’t start making tee times again.
Not much happening, the paper shows nothing but the same old stuff. 40 Lebanese civilians killed at Houla; 15 Israeli soldiers and civilians blown to bits at a kibbutz; 700 hundred Lebanese and almost a hundred Israelis dead in the last twenty-six days – with no end in sight. Murder, pillage and rape seem to be at normal levels in Darfur, and the usual thirty or forty Iraqis moving on to the next life each day.
Oh, and we’re staying the course in Iraq. More than ninety-five percent of our casualties have come since the President announced that the mission had been accomplished. Thank goodness we won. eh?
Oh, and a round of applause for the U.N. The latest Security Council resolution will certainly be read with interest and awe in Beirut and Jerusalem. Those diplomats sure know how to stop carnage in its tracks.
I guess the new Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, isn’t quite on board the spin machine. He admitted that the take home pay of ordinary Americans is not increasing as rapidly as the costs of energy and health care. What can you expect with Karl Rove spending more time worrying about his legal situation than to what administration officials are saying? Now that it’s clear that he won’t be indicted for outing Valerie Plame, he should have time to take Henry to the woodshed.
Hope your world is good. I’ve got to cut this off to make a reservation at the course.
Ciao.
Blog on!
Wild Bill
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