The Wilds of Louisiana

I just finished a week of making sales calls in the wilds of southern Louisiana....lots of heat & humidity. I recently subscribed to satellite radio and have become somewhat spoiled to the choices such a Blue Collar comedy, NPR, Bluegrass, classic country and the Sinatra channel to name a few. My rental car radio could only pick up AM & FM and in some areas (shades of dueling banjos) very few of those stations. Choices were sports, religion, country music and talk radio. I got quite a cross section of views on current issues such as Cap & Trade ranging from Rush Limbaugh to local somewhat liberal talk shows hosts. I was amazed that almost all these talk show hosts agreed that Cap & Trade is not good and neither is government sponsored health care...especially when a tax will be levied on the health care plans of small businesses and corporation to pay for the government plan. I understand that the proposed government health care plan (socialized medicine) excludes all members of Congress & the President. WOW!!! these plans are good enough to be forced on us but not good enough for our elected officials. To paraphrase FDR's first Vice President, "None of them is worth a bucket of warm spit".

High School Graduation 2009

A very proud day for my family and I was June 8, 2009, when my oldest granddaughter & her husband graduated high school. It was a nice ceremony held at the Univ of North Texas Colosseum. There were almost 900 graduates and it started at 8pm. I thought we would be finished at midnight if we were lucky and my granddaughter's last name (her maiden name) starts with a W and she was 7th from the last. To my amazement they were finished by 10pm and we had very little trouble getting out the parking lot. We had five generations of our family attending the ceremony...my parents, my wife & I, my daughter & son, my granddaughters & grandson and great granddaughter. Memories....October, 1990 my granddaughter was so small I could hold her in my hand. Eighteen years later she is a grown woman graduating high school...but regardless she is still and always will be my little girl.

GM...Mark of Extravagance

General Motor declared bankruptcy a few days ago after Chrysler did a few weeks ago. Its amazing that these companies have gone from the premier car companies in the world to this. I can remember when GM was the number one company in the world. I have owned 10 cars----one Dodge, two Fords, one Volkswagen, one Subaru and the rest GM products. My wife has a Saturn with 110,000 plus miles. Fords have been my least favorite (I will never buy another Ford) yet they are in the best financial shape. As the above drama unfolds who would have thought that Fiat from Italy would be buying Chrysler and the Chinese would by the Hummer...they must have got a humdinger of a deal. Lord, Mr Ford what have you done?