One Weekend in June

What has happened in the last few days? Big Brown flopped in the Belmont Stakes Saturday and came in last. Now there are questions about what was wrong with him--heat in New York, steroids or none in him, just a day when he was in a horse bad mood? It rained very hard in Des Moines and flooded the basement parking garage at a yuppie aparment complex and drowned at east 20 expensive cars. Poor yuppies. There were tornadoes around Omaha, and high 90s heat along the east coast. Jim McKay passed away. There is a jittery nervousness in the MidEast as to whether Iran or Israel will attack the other one first. There was an interesting short bit the other night on O'Reilley on Fox, with BO' trying to talk to Pat Buchanan about Pat's latest book, about whether the British provoked Hitler into starting WW2, by promising to go to war when Poland was attacked. The interview went nowhere, because BO' has no background in History and could not ask the right questions to Pat. It's more of the talking heads of cable and network news having no history background. Back to local flooding; the local creeks and rivers are very high, there is spotty flooding in low lying river bottom areas in town and another heavy rain will send back to '93 conditions. Too many people in town, after the 93 floods, moved right back into the flood plain areas, which is much of the city. Everybody in the metroplex here is in a grouchy mood, probably due to the weather we have been having since last winter. Gas prices are up over 4 bucks a gal. ethanol gas is just a little below 4.00 but by Monday a.m may be up. I have not checked the gitngo sign for a few hours. This may be it, for right now. I will return for more blogging in a day or so. You take care now. Di di mau!