Another cross-training day coming up. The weather is bone-dry, thanks to the Santa Ana wind conditions. The fire in Malibu and rest of the Southern California rages on and if we ever needed rain, this would be the time and place. I am guessing that on a day like this, when relative humidity is in single digits, the ocean side would be the best place to run. If that's not an option, then the best bet would be run after dusk or when the heat and dry condition have mellowed a bit. And having a humidifier at night would ensure some restful sleep and energy for the next day.
On the same day that an article appeared on yahoo that for most Americans, it is getting harder to live from paycheck to paycheck (see,
Living paycheck to paycheck gets harder), the chief executive of the U.S. asked for another 46 billion dollars to fight an illegal war of occupation (see, Bush asks for $46 billion more for wars). Here's a leader whose people are living from hand to mouth and skipping meals just to feed their famished children while he plunges the nation into greater debt and financial insecurity. While the average American makes a little higher than minimum wage, his/her taxes go into paying Blackwater USA mercenaries 100 times the wage that an average American earns. And these mercenaries hired by Blackwater USA are not just U.S. citizens and residents alone -- they could be soldiers of fortune from any corner of the world. Blackwater USA and many other contractors in Iraq have been accused of gypping the U.S. Government and you have to wonder how much of Bush's 46 billion is going to fill the coffers of Blackwater USA and its ilk. For a company such as Blackwater USA and its right-wing crusader, Eric Prince, this war in Iraq must be a God-send (no pun intended) and there's every incentive for Blackwater USA to ensure that this is a war without an end.
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