And, in fact...

Chad Rogers said it a lot better than I did....

http://www.rogersrants.com/blog/default.aspx?id=278&t=Jim-Bernhard-Selfless-Crusader-for-the

The headline should read "Dem Contributor with political aspirations..."

From NOLA.com:

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1243142451109030.xml&coll=1

And certainly I'm very tardy in getting this post out the door...but, while Jim Bernhard is telling the legislature what they should do and implying that he knows better than the Gov...Shaw is quietly laying off. A few here, a few there...and, from what I've been able to find out, none in Louisiana. How convenient.

I personally don't care if Shaw lays off or not...but, what I feel is totally disingenuous is the fact that Shaw is laying off at the same time Bernhard is wanting to "give back" bonus money the state has paid Shaw for early project completion. Two things jump out at me: Jim obviously doesn't give a crack about his employees and where are the Shaw stockholders when it comes to returning profits? No one has heard from them.

There are other things at work here--Bernhard made a habit out of flying KBB and Coach around the planet on Shaw jets. He writes big checks to Dem causes and candidates. He's going out of his way to make Jindal look stupid.

See Jim run--I don't care what he said on "Tune In."

No one said you had to be smart...

To be a cop either:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/45885107.html

Watch out for the "aggressive" DWI enforcement here in Louisiana this weekend. But, come Tuesday, we'll go back to only enforcing the limits on blood alcohol in a half-ass, haphazard manner.

This is dumb like "Click it or ticket," and the gay "Feel the heat," campaign. While I don't have time to run the numbers right now--intuitively, you should know that if you decide to drive under the influence, drive sans seat belt or speed, your odds of getting away with it are far greater than the odds that a cop will accept a free doughnut. If I were one to wager, I'd call it a "sure thing."

How about we do this--we aggressively enforce traffic laws that pertain to safety, we concentrate our efforts on areas where we will make the roads safest for the greatest number of people and we do it all the time. Not just on busy, holiday weekends.

And let's CERTAINLY give up the two dumb ass practices of concentrating troopers and other law enforcement personnel at seat belt and sobriety checkpoints. If you want to get the most enforcement for your buck, putting all your pigs in one place is WAY, WAY dumb....

Have a safe Memorial Day weekend...and, if the opportunity presents itself, thank a member of our Armed Forces.

Don't you hate long absences?

I know the four people who regularly read my blog--my mom and dad, my cousin and my uncle--have just been DYING for me to post something new. Sorry...daddyhood and a couple of feisty holes in the ground have been eating up my time.

Until I have time to carry on about the likes of useless pieces of trash--such as Wanda Sykes (and our president and his press corps)--you four will have to amuse yourself with this little tidbit:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/police/44683872.html?showAll=y&c=y

Read the article and bear in mind that Jerry Denton RAN for this job--it wasn't foisted upon him.

N'Awlins Airshow 2009

I have a two-year-old who thinks "loud" and "fast" are two adjectives that should always be used together.

We discovered this when, kind of on a whim, we took him to the Sertoma Air Show in Lafayette in November of last year. Okay...daddy and his Papi really wanted to go, so we dragged mom and Ma'am along with us. That meant the that soon-to-be two-year-old was coming, like it or not.

And like it he did! He was infatuated with the planes, a little intimidated by the noise of the military hardware but really in to it. As each plane would taxi on to the runway, he'd wave to it and let everyone who cared to listen know that planes go "bye-bye."

So, with a chance to take him to a real military airshow, I couldn't resist.

The drive to New Orleans was well worth the show we got to see at the 2009 N'Awlins Airshow, held at NAS JRB New Orleans, in Belle Chasse. After we parked (like 200 meters from the flight line) and cleared security (which saw us in line for all of about 3 minutes), we set lawn chairs out at air show center (no kidding--we beat the Sunday crowd by going on Saturday...who'd have thought??) and immediately were treated to flyovers from a B-52 and a B-2 Spirit. Not that he'll remember it, but the boy will probably never see a B-52 in the air again and the historical importance of that plane cannot be overstated.

The rest of the show was great! The Blue Angels were the headline performer but, and I hate to say this, the Air Force really snuck one in on 'em. In addition to flying the two heavies over (the B-2 is otherworldly in appearance), the Air Force's Viper East demo unit, flying the F-16, was killer!! But the real draw was the chance to see these guys in the air:

I probably would have driven a lot farther than New Orleans to see the Raptor fly...and I would have been rewarded for the time and mileage invested. To say that you can't imagine a plane doing things that this one does is an understatement. The Laws of Physics really get back-burnered when this thing is in the air. As the boy so eloquently put it (in two-year-old speak), "loud planes go fast-fast!!"

Totally and completely a wonderful, enjoyable Saturday--I got to spend the day with my son and my mom and dad (the wife was contributing to the financial well-being of the American Left by attending Jazz Fest) and the boy got exposed to some of the men, women and material that have helped defend this country and guarantee our freedoms.

Which is where it gets pretty melancholy.

Because the current administration really doesn't value our armed forces, the job they perform or the important place they occupy in securing our liberties, they're getting their financial legs cut out from beneath them. Those of us not serving generally don't see that and wouldn't give it much thought otherwise, but it was made apparent when I found out that this could possibly be the last airshow at NAS New Orleans for some time.

It seems that the Navy, who's dealing with a quickly shrinking budget, may have to curtail the number of airshows they host. In one of the best ways for the public to see what their tax dollars are buying and interact with the men and women serving them, the airshow is a no-brainer from an expense perspective...yet, the Obama clowns are basically saying screw the military. So, the military is going to be a in a crunch.

And the public, my son included, are losing out.