i dunno if you've recently seen one of those color-coded national weather maps so i'm posting one captured within the past hour. 

as you can see, the whole damn country is hot as hell.  wouldn't surprise me if areas shown in that scary purplish color aren't, in fact, official hell remote locations. 

i don't recall from past summers seeing this sorta map totally saturated in orange, red and beyond (not that i can recall ever actually or intentionally focusing any attention on them in the past).  i'm pretty sure there were a couple places in green or yellow, one of which would have been the famously frigid outpost of frostbite falls, mn.

hot as it's been, my blood didn't begin to boil until i learned what's behind this attack on our climate.  it's something called the jet stream.  i'm not gonna try to explain it except to point out two things: 

1.  it's the same old science crap with a new name so i'm not gonna waste any of my time tryin to figure it out and i'd advise yall to do the same.

2.  what it's supposed to do is send cool air down to us from canada so we don't wind up sweatin our asses off down here. 

as you can see from this map (created a few seconds after the first one) it ain't doin like it should. something--or someone--has altered the jet stream course causing it to remain on the other side of the border hovering high above the heads of our so-called neighbors to the north. 

invisible to the untrained eye, the stream is like a real stream and if the flow is blocked--as it is now--we suffer.

so who's doin this to us?   seems obvious to me as i'm sure it does everyone who truly cherishes free cool air and firmly believes america was never intended to be some sorta equatorial sweatbox.

bottom line, it don't matter. evildoers are evildoers.

what we should be askin ourselves is when are we gonna get outta the hot seat, take this off the back burner and put things back the way they were?  it's a no-brainer this time for real.  we can easily assemble an experienced team of strategists (for instance, wolfowitz, rummy & libby are presently underutilized).  best of all, we don't need to capture or hold anything tangible so we  can get 'er done with very few boots on the ground

without giving anything more away, this mission would seem to require only a few planes, some precisely configured  tactical nuclear weather tweaking devices and a willingness to take back what has always been rightfully ours.  no need to over think this one because it's pure technology (hell..think about all those films in which scientists easily modified natural forces like weather, triumphing even though they were all actors, not scientists; with real geeks how can we possibly fail?)

as far as foreign policy goes, we have established historical precedent on our side.  who hasn't heard of '54-40 or fight'? all that's required is a lil reviving and revising.  instead of latitude and longitude, this time we're talkin temperature.  none of that homo centigrade stuff of course.  just good ol homemade fahrenheit.

anyone gives us any shit, we can use that badly aging hippie punk bob zimmerman's own milktoast lyric to shut em up.

we don't need a weatherman to tell which way it's blowin.