Thursday Observations

Really?

Can you imagine training as a pilot in the military with an exemplary flight record, going to apply for the job of a commercial pilot, and being invited to clean the planes? The surviving Tuskeegee Airmen are being invited to the presidential inauguration. These men went through a lot of racism in the military, during the war, and after the war. Even the Nazis wondered why they would fight for a country that treated them the way the United States did. And now they have been invited to look on as the first African American president is inaugurated. I think the only down side in all of this is that a lot of them are not fit to travel.

Emergency care is a national disgrace

Having four kids and having taken two of them to the emergency room, my prayer is that no one in my family ever has to go again. Each time we went to the emergency room (little A had broken her leg and I had fallen down the stairs carrying Max  – I pretty much broke his fall), the care was good, but the wait times and subsequent insurance company dramas cemented in our minds the fact that we would just deal with our family physicians unless we had other broken bone emergencies in the kids or life threatening emergencies. Maybe we were on to something.

I think they found Caylee. That story is such the hot mess.

What is it they say? Behind every good man?

At least they keep it in the family? Don’t stand before the cameras like a deer caught in the headlights.  Smile and wave, thinking to yourself, “And we almost (expletive) got away with it! (expletive)” In case the adventures of the Blagojeviches has started to make your eyes glaze over, check this out. There’s enough corruption for everybody this holiday season.