Last weekend before Labor Day

This is the last weekend before Labor Day weekend, and I have been reading [sadly] about how the generals in Iraq expect American involvement well in to 2009. I find it repugnant the the American president taking office on January 20, 2009 will be saddled with this Administration's mistakes.

The troops on the ground in Iraq deserve so much better. Have a good holiday week with your family, and think of those in service overseas not with their families.

Random thoughts while on vacation.

January 20, 2009: A date we are all waiting for with impassioned patience. Homer had the right idea more than 2000 years ago -----seemingly about Bush 41 and Bush 43:

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.”
Homer (800 BC - 700 BC), The Odyssey

-------------------------------------------------

NASA keeps Earth's nasty germs at home Los Angeles Times
By Amber Dancer

“When NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander rocketed into space Saturday, it went, like all missions, with the assurance that as few Earth microbes as possible tagged along. Hitchhiking microbes could impair the experiments, or worse: An errant microbe could contaminate the planet."

It’s obvious that NASA has a much better policy regarding invading foreign lands than the Pentagon does.

-------------------------------------------------------
Back to the beach tomorrow:

Florida charges no one to get on their beaches. They’re beautiful, and parking was a minimal cost or free.

Assemlylman Neil Cohen is right ---let's start next season right and stop charging people to get on Jersey beaches.