April 2009 Archives

Travelled back from NYC very late last night JetBlue.

The good;  watched the Nuggets win while en-route (woo-hoo!)

The bad: flight left 90 minutes late.

The OK:  JetBlue terminal fun --- Microsoft-cafe-style food offerings (lots of variations, roll-your-own, etc), lots of space, lots of places to work on a laptop WITH POWER!

The interesting;  different sociodemographic flying -- less experience with TSA, for sure --- and both pilots foreign nationals, which I'm guessing is to keep costs down.

The gorgeous --- 40 minutes of flying just south and over massive cumulus clouds on the plains. Multiple cloud lightning strikes simultaneously the entire time.

I"ve had my head-down building an American business the last few months, so was a little startled to hear Republican Bush-Wannabee Governor Perry publically call for Texas to secede from America today.

My first thought was that, having destroyed America's global standing and economy they now want to blow up the remnants.

My second thought was that this is just the same old politics of fear, hate, and division that they've used the last 20 years ... to destroy the country.  In that sense, predictable.

My third thought was to recall the recent literature I've been reading about Lincoln --- the single issue that nearly destroyed America through the Civil War was the South's desire to secede.

I guess Perry wants to own slaves, or perhaps become King of Mexico.

But I know this is a systematic effort on the part of the increasingly small right wing fringe nuts with money to undermine America's ability to recover as one nation, united....in hopes they can regain power for their personal aggrandizement...

Remarkable moral as well as intellectual fraud....