Feh. It's only 10:20 in the AM and it's already hit the 90s. This morning is already so GROSS!

It hit 90 at 9 am here!

If Fidel is dead I'm not going home for another month. The Miami Cubans are already going nuts just on rumor. @@ The majority of them have no personal knowledge or interest in Cuba. Like Americans most of them have no huge interest in political matters. Their parents or grandparents hate Castro so they hate him too. People are partying in the street! To Calle Ocho! If leaving Miami and going home to Cuba were an option tomorrow we would not see any drop in the Cuban population in Miami. Which is a good thing. They have great parties on Calle Ocho.

I went to hot yoga this morning because I = crazy but also I figured it would make the rest of the day seem relatively cool. so far it's working. but I don't plan to spend a lot of time outside.

So which is the best solution for Cuba? Castrobot? Or Castro's head in a jar?

It's 87 here already. (I thought that the weather was supposed to break last night. . . guess not.)

On behalf of California, I apologize to all you Midwesterners and Easterners for sending our hot weather your way.

It's supposed to reach 99 F here today (heat index of 105). Ungodly hot, but it's also not out of line for NC in August. I'll be glad when September rolls around.

This from The Onion is great:

In a decisive 1-0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers.

The Presidential Empowerment Act, which the president hand-drafted on his own Oval Office stationery and promptly signed into law, provides Bush with full authority to permit himself to authorize increased jurisdiction over the three branches of the federal government, provided that the president considers it in his best interest to do so. "In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power," Bush said. "To do otherwise would be playing into the hands of our enemies." ...

Senior administration officials lauded Bush's decision, saying that current presidential powers over presidential power were "far too limited." ...

Despite the president's new powers, the role of Congress and the Supreme Court has not been overlooked. Under the new law, both enjoy the newly broadened ability to grant the president the authority to increase his presidential powers. ... Republicans fearful that the president's new power undermines their ability to grant him more power have proposed a new law that would allow senators to permit him to grant himself more power, with or without presidential approval.

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It is 84 degrees INSIDE my workplace. Too Hot!