Another must see video

Burning Down The House: What Caused Our Economic Crisis?

Fannie & Freddie

Great article that appeared on bloomberg.com today.
To read "How the Democrats Created the Financial Crisis" by Kevin Hassett go to
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aSKSoiNbnQY0

Another good column

Michael Reagan's column also correctly assigns the blame for the mortgage mess where it belongs - with liberal Democrats.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelReagan/2008/09/18/pinning_the_tail_on_the_donkey

Neal Boortz column

Neal Boortz has a great column today on Townhall.com.
http://townhall.com/columnists/NealBoortz/2008/09/19/the_rest_of_the_meltdown_story

Fire Carl

It's long past time that the Kansas City Chiefs bring the long nightmare of the Carl Peterson era to a close. The Chiefs suffered an embarrassing 23-8 butt-kicking against a sub-par Raiders team today. This should be the final nail in Carl's coffin. What was once a proud franchise is now a complete joke. Change is way past due. Fire Carl and do it now!

The Difference a Day Makes

Today is a beautiful day in Dallas - mostly sunny, few clouds, temps in the upper 80's. What a difference a day makes!

Notre Dame 35 Michigan 17

Now this is more like it! The 2-0 Fighting Irish looked like their old selves today with a nice win over Michigan. Is this the start of an Irish resurgence?

Dear Mr. Obama

This is a must-see video. I heard the audio yesterday on Rush Limbaugh's radio show. Hats off to this young man - a true American hero!

Mizzou rules!

The Missouri Tigers rolled past Nevada today 69-17. I don't get to watch too many Mizzou games here in Dallas but luckily this one was televised and I saw most of it. The Tigers were very impressive once again! Go Mizzou!

Winds picking up

Fortunately it appears that Dallas will be spared from the heavy winds and rain caused by Hurricane Ike. The winds have picked up here with gusts at 33 mph, but that is nothing like the 60mph wind gusts in Tyler, which is just east of Dallas. It's been raining fairly steady in Dallas for most of the day. Ugh!

Ike's rain reaches Dallas

Hurricane Ike's rains have reached Dallas. I just shot this video of our backyard/pool area. Observations at this point: Sky is very cloudy. Rain is moderate to heavy. Not much wind - yet. Hint: Pause the music playing on my site before playing video - then you can hear the rain!

Dems running scared

Now that the wheels are coming off of the Obama campaign, other Dems are running scared.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c2f69ce-8031-11dd-99a9-000077b07658.html

Happy Birthday Tommy

Pic of Tom taken recently in San Francisco

Happy Birthday to my L-P-B-S!
I had made plans for us to celebrate Tom's birthday in Austin or Houston this weekend. We scrapped those plans though due to hurricane Ike, which is expected to hit southeast Texas later tonight. My thoughts and prayers go out to all who are in the path of Ike. Anyway it looks like we'll be spending Tom's birthday weekend in Big D - away from the storm.

Flashback: Seven years ago we spent Tom's birthday in St. Louis, where I was living at the time. Tom had a ticket to fly to St. Louis on 9/12/01 but his flight, along with all others, was cancelled due to the savage terrorist attacks the day before. Instead, he got in his car and made the ten hour drive from Dallas to St. Louis, arriving into town that evening. I can't remember much of what we did during Tom's stay other than watch TV coverage of 9/11. That was all most everyone, including us, could think about.

McCain Now in the Lead!

The latest Gallup daily tracking poll shows that John McCain now leads Barack Obama 48 percent to 45 percent among registered voters. Now, this is more like it! America is finally waking up!