Month: August 2006

’06 AT: Day 03

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Festivals Summertime. The in rural United States and especially in the Midwest, August and September are the time for county and state fairs. When we lived in Iowa I used to love going to the fairs. Here they have festivals. Parades and activities throughout the day and into the night. There is a festival going … Read more

’06 AT: Day 02

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So, jet lag kept me from sleeping. At 0530 I decided to get up and get the day started. I had a 0750 airplane to check. I climbed in to the shower. Wow! Awesome shower. Water pressure that would be the envy of most fire departments. A nice shower head, it didn’t do tricks, just … Read more

’06 AT Day 01

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’06 AT: Uchi Focus Lens Day 1 Had a flight out of San Jose. Got there about three and a half hours early because of all the security warnings. Spent about two hours cooling my jets in the airport. Would have liked the extra hour of sleep but I did enjoy not having to rush … Read more

Crystal Clear

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This article by Frank Gaffney makes very clear the eventual outcome of efforts to cut & run in Iraq. As I’ve said many times in this blog, it does not matter what you think about how we got into the war we are currently fighting, we have to finish it. Nixon’s exit from Vietnam was … Read more

Who Hid the Iraqi WMDs??

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“The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq” (Kenneth M. Pollack) Kenneth Pollack’s article in The Atlantic Monthly addresses the ‘errors’ in his book “The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq” (Kenneth M. Pollack). In my opinion, The Threatening Storm is still one of the best resources available for understanding the situation in Iraq. … Read more