Weather It Is (Up and Down?)

Good morning:

This summer's summertime weather continues summerly along.  However, it's really not too "bad," as the temperature are hot, but not too hot.  In fact, the nights have turned quite pleasant again, at least in the mountainous areas like in Jerusalem.  And there doesn't seem to be any real change in sight.

The reason for our fairly stable is weather is low pressure situated to our east, with high pressure situated over the northern part of the African continent. Between them, we have a fairly steady flow of air from our east (so it's hot), which mixes with a more cool westerly flow of air from the sea (so it's not too hot).

Of course, some of us might be feeling hot around the collar, as the government announces one tax increase after another.  I guess our ministers don't feel that our overdrafts our high enough, so now we'll be able to use our overdraft (which the banks really encourage) to pay higher taxes.  On the other hand, didn't quite a large number of Israeli citizens spend the previous summer campaigning for government sponsored (i.e, "free) education for kindergarten, etc?  One can't blame the government for giving with one hand, while taking with the other (which then passes behind the back to the giving hand).  The alternative would just give the banks a reason to charge higher interest rates.

Barry Lynn