Sunny this morning, and now afternoon. The temperature is cool but the weather reports say it will rise over the next few days. They expect rain Monday and Tuesday. We have to pay rent this week and we saw a couple of nice days for errands.
This story is one reason I try to find different voices and different sources of information. I read accounts of Hezbollah and the services it provided in its areas which the central government couldn't. Now Lebanon is very nearly a failed state. I wondered before why the Palestinians would tolerate them unless they provided desperately needed services which the Palestinian Authority either couldn't or wouldn't (or which Israel blocked). We have a habit of painting enemies as devils but that blinds us to everything that might make people support them. Our government officials and their allied politicians have lied often enough that I take what they say with a grain of salt.
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Cloudy with infrequent sun. No rain yet but it is expected later today and into tomorrow. It has been a lazy morning but unless we have errands or appointments they are all lazy. I spent the morning weaving a few more spares and finishing Jeffrey Deaver's latest Lincoln Rhyme mystery: The Watchman's Hand. As usual it is complex and convoluted. You may figure out part but then you find the main mystery has related mysteries spinning off of it.
Bill Astore said it all in the title to his latest post on his substack site: The Pentagon Ate Our Government. The Pentagon's share of the latest budget just passed increased by $27Billion.
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