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.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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.
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.
Monday, November 24, 2008
NO MORE BAILOUTS!!!
OK, so Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid ("the dim bulb from Searchlight, NV"), and the rest of the Democrats in power need W. to bail out the auto industry so their friends in the auto workers unions can continue the status quo and the "Big Three" do NOT file bankruptcy. The Democrats can't/won't do it themselves so their hands are clean and can claim the moral high ground when flushing 25MM of Taxpayer's money down the toilet, er I mean giving it to the same idiots who ran the big three into the ground, is proven to be a waste.
Bankruptcy is the answer as it allows management to drag the unions back to the negotiation table to work together to save the industry (or dump the union completely). The Airlines filed, reorganized and they're still flying, why can't it work in Detroit?
Like the housing crisis, Congress is also culpable with their ridiculous CAFE standards they enforce on US car manufacturers that Honda & Toyota aren't subject too. Per the CAFE standards, the Big Three can't count imported vehicles to their mileage efficiency standards, so they have to have the union workers make the cheap cars with better mileage as well as the much more profitable SUV's and trucks.
Bankruptcy is the answer as it allows management to drag the unions back to the negotiation table to work together to save the industry (or dump the union completely). The Airlines filed, reorganized and they're still flying, why can't it work in Detroit?
Like the housing crisis, Congress is also culpable with their ridiculous CAFE standards they enforce on US car manufacturers that Honda & Toyota aren't subject too. Per the CAFE standards, the Big Three can't count imported vehicles to their mileage efficiency standards, so they have to have the union workers make the cheap cars with better mileage as well as the much more profitable SUV's and trucks.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Tough Week
My bride and I had "the talk" with Ethan (no, not that one, for Pete's Sake, he's only EIGHT). The talk about Santa Claus. One of the older kids at Day Care was telling everyone that "Santa isn't real" and "it's your mom and dad", and Ethan got into an argument about it.
He wound up being teased because he believed.
So, Brooke called me on my way home from work (ANOTHER late one), told me of his troubles and felt that we should tell him.
After we put Cameron to bed, we tucked in Ethan and told him the truth. He didn't know how to handle it. It looked like he was going to cry, but he was smiling. He was upset because the older kid "was ruining it, for EVERYONE!!!" and went on how this kid always likes being right and what was wrong with him? I told him that in life you'll run into those kinds of people your whole life. There are a few that daddy works with. All you can do is shrug your shoulders and let them think what they want because you won't be able to change their minds and life is too short for that.
He looked at me, gave me a little smile and said, "Well, at least he wasn't making fun of the Easter Bunny." I smiled and told him THAT was a discussion for another time.
He wound up being teased because he believed.
So, Brooke called me on my way home from work (ANOTHER late one), told me of his troubles and felt that we should tell him.
After we put Cameron to bed, we tucked in Ethan and told him the truth. He didn't know how to handle it. It looked like he was going to cry, but he was smiling. He was upset because the older kid "was ruining it, for EVERYONE!!!" and went on how this kid always likes being right and what was wrong with him? I told him that in life you'll run into those kinds of people your whole life. There are a few that daddy works with. All you can do is shrug your shoulders and let them think what they want because you won't be able to change their minds and life is too short for that.
He looked at me, gave me a little smile and said, "Well, at least he wasn't making fun of the Easter Bunny." I smiled and told him THAT was a discussion for another time.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Change We Can Believe In
Hearty congratulations to President Elect Barack Obama. He ran a great campaign and did what he needed to in order to ascend to the highest office in the land.
We are in for an interesting four years.
I'm VERY CURIOUS to see what the GOP does next. They got their hats HANDED to them and this is a wonderful opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
I hope they make the most of it.
We are in for an interesting four years.
I'm VERY CURIOUS to see what the GOP does next. They got their hats HANDED to them and this is a wonderful opportunity to learn from their mistakes.
I hope they make the most of it.
Monday, November 3, 2008
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