Summer Monday Night

Not a very original title for this blog entry, but pure summer is finally here, and in the heartland we are up to 90 degrees and the skies are blue and the rivers are down to their normal levels and the floods are gone, but it is going to take a long time and mucho money to rebuild Cedar Rapids and Iowa City and the towns that got tornadoed, and that is just in Iowa. We are having now nice weather but the aftermath of the bad weather will be around for a long time, and Burma is back being off the news map after the big typhoon, and the Atlantic hurricane season may yet produce something nasty for someone. And Nejad may be planning another trip to NYC in a couple of weeks. A big bank in Calif. crashed the other day, and there is some doubt if the FDIC can pay off the losses of all the depositers. Heart doctor DeBakey died a couple days ago at age 99, and Tony Snow died Saturday. The Iranians fired off some missiles the other day, but there is some question about whether the tapes of the firings were phoney. Nine Americans were killed in Afghanistan the other day by talibans. Lots more world news to report, but the Brinkley divorce seems to have taken up a lot more time in mediaspace than it should have. And Brad and AJolie had twins. A building in Indianola collapsed Sunday morning, leaving some people in the upstairs apartments homeless, but a couple of women got their cats rescued from the rubble today. Nice big kitty cats. Ethanol gas in Des Moines is up to 3.98, the highest it has been yet--probably will be 4.00 very soon. There was a mob of people at the closest QT this afternoon filling up. If I fill up at 4 a.m. I will probably be paying the 4 bucks. A very funny 2.5 Men on CBS this evening, and 2 funny Big Bang episodes. This is going to be all for right now. You all stay cool in the summer heat, and we will return for more blogging. Di di mau!