"In The Event of An Emergency Landing....

PLEASE leave behind your carry-on bags."

These were the words I heard for the first time upon our descent into a fog bound O'Hare Airport in Chicago on December 26th. The words were chilling and an apparent response to the accident the occurred a week or so earlier in Colorado where that Continental Airlines plane skidded off the runway and dozens were injured. I guess the mental process of everything is OK and act like nothing was wrong kicked in and people were collecting their belongings while others were struggling to get out of the airplane while it was burning.

Anyway, driving home from the airport I felt disbelief in how we landed in conditions I didn't feel comfortable driving in.

Prayers were answered.

Why I Hate Harry Reid

Ok, so he's Nancy Pelosi's mouthpiece, that would be enough, but the DC Examiner published this:

Reid: We won't smell the tourists anymore

By Jeff Dufour and Patrick Gavin

POSTED December 2, 2008 | 11:00 AM

The Capitol Visitors Center, which opened this morning, may have tripled its original budget and fallen years behind schedule, but Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid found a silver lining for members of Congress: tourists won't offend them with their B.O. anymore.

"My staff tells me not to say this, but I'm going to say it anyway," said Reid in his remarks. "In the summer because of the heat and high humidity, you could literally smell the tourists coming into the Capitol. It may be descriptive but it's true."

But it's no longer going to be true, noted Reid, thanks to the air conditioned, indoor space.

And that's not all. "We have many bathrooms here, as you can see," Reid continued. "Souvenirs are available."

$621 million well spent.