A few points...

(1.) The Valley Funeral Home has had its license suspended due to complaints about their service. Old man Sykes was buried in Laurel Cemetery yesterday Sept. 14. Connection? none. I just wanted to mention it.

(2.) My pet goat will be distributing large wads of cash to the great unwashed along the gulf coast to try to salvage his near to fatally wounded ratings. It's going to take a lot of bread and circuses to buy himself out of this one, but, like the credit card commercial says, "It's not as if I'M paying for it."

(3.) With Dubya's low ratings at the moment, it is not surprising that the insurgent elements in Iraq have turned up the heat. Al Qaeda has begun to make their involvement in these attacks less discrete. Houston, we have a problem.

(4.) After reading about the difficulty that Julian Charter Schools is having providing a safe place to load and offload children at some additional classroom space they require, it seems that privatization of education is still subject to some of the restrictions that public schools are. This makes me ask the question: with privatization of schools, will the money saved thereby involve curtailment of certain government protections that kids in the public school system currently enjoy, like governmental overwatch?

(5.) Apparently the Murrieta library is going to have to consider making some compromises regarding the amenities offered due to budgetary constraints. Perhaps we'll get a better library if we find some way to privatize the library system.Unfortunately, there is likely no profit in running a place for storage of knowledge, freely accessible to all.