The weather is hot pretty much everywhere in America this week (we broke a record yesterday – over 100° in the DC Metro – I don’t know if we’ve matched it today), although probably not as hot as it is in Iraq. I spent today in a pair of shorts and a T-shirt… Our soldiers, I expect, wore a lot more.
George Bush held a press conference before leaving for the somewhat cooler Maine coast today. I understand he is not on vacation… this is a summer “recess.” Some sailing and golf will help him get over what has apparently been a year’s suffering from the effects of Lime Disease.
It’s not certain if he is in the 5% of patients suffering problems with concentration and short term memory, but his press conference raised questions about both: He couldn’t remember when he heard about the Pat Tillman “coverup,”for instance, and his concentration was, let’s say, focused elsewhere.
Meanwhile, those of us who can’t afford to get to someplace cool are simply inside running up the electric bill keeping the AC on and drinking a lot of water. The folks in Iraq are probably not able to do this… even though we have given a number of big corporations billions of dollars to restore these services to Iraqis. The Iraqi Parliament, however, is vacationing as well… I wonder what cool places they head off to?
Next month, when it starts to cool down a bit, we can all get ready for General Petraeus’ glowing report from the front on the surge’s success, though the death rate has gone up and the civil war is even more active, what with the Sunni’s pulling out of the government.
And somewhere, in a deep, dark cave, where water drips from the cracks in the ceiling, the bats circle around the Neocons who plan our future in Iran.
