Befitting a Hero

Just returned home to New Mexico from Iowa. We laid to rest the ashes of my father-in-law Bob Day. He and his wife have a small plot at the beautiful Sacred Heart Cemetery in Boone Iowa. He was accorded full military honors, including a 21-gun salute and taps. RIP dad.

Obamacracy

So, Why is he Cutting aid to the Egyptian Democratic movement? Read here and read it all.

A pleasant surprise in President Obama's Thursday speech on the Middle East was his rhetorical shift on democracy. His audience at Cairo University applauded his commitment "to governments that reflect the will of the people" and "freedom to live as you choose." So why is his Administration cutting support for democracy promotion?

Stuck in Omaha

The airport in Denver is fogged in so all planes are being held at the gates of other airports that are sending planes to Denver - mine is delayed for 30 minutes so not so bad but it means I will have a delay leaving Denver, but at least I will have a connecting flight. Fog - Wimps!

Obamonomics at Work in an Obamocrat State

On the front page of yesterday's local newspaper there was a report that in the Boone area unemployment is 9.4%. Boone county voted slightly Democrat in the last presidential election; no doubt the influence of liberal college town Ames. Will Obamonomics come to the aid of Boone county - well maybe for the college town, the farmers will have to take care of themselves. They will have to put more windmills on their land and grow less food. They already grow more grain for the ethanol industry than most other places. Now green cars will help kill that business, also.

Boone Blogging

Over at Legal Insurrection an interesting note on the Obama's speech to the Islamic world:

'The selection of this item to highlight in the "historic" speech is a window on what was wrong with the overall tone of the speech. While the speech was good in some specific respects, the overall tone was one of moral equivalence and subjugation to grievance politics. And the Muslim charity canard is a prime example'

Broken Buchanan

My opinion of Buchanan has dropped greatly after reading his horrible book blaming Churchill for WWI and WWII. So it should come as no surprise that I consider this column to be just more of his deluded rants: Breaking Bibi.

Race to Oblivion: Obama, Chrysler and the end of an American Icon

Remote blogging from Boone Iowa. Here is an interesting snippet from the WSJ:

The Obama administration rushed an alliance between Chrysler and Fiat despite Chrysler's worries about Fiat's financial health and its willingness to share technology, according to internal company emails.

The emails show Fiat ignoring requests for documents and trying to change contract terms late in the talks.

The documents provide a glimpse at the tense debates that shaped Chrysler's final days as it raced to find a suitor.