My Own Thoughts

Two US magazine covers tell the story.

We were in Sugar Land for three days. There are downed trees there, maybe three or four in an area of one hundred homes. There are probably forty or fifty big limbs down. One house lost some shingles off the roof. But that was it. We came home and the lights are still down. But [...]

R went home today because his work has electricity. None of the lights in our part of the subdivision are working, so it takes a long time to get home from work during rush hour. Trees, many trees, are down. There is some power in our section of town, but 85% in our area code [...]

Gordon Felt, president of the Flight 93 family group that supports the crescent shaped memorial, offered a nice summary statement of the heroism of Flight 93: They had some forewarning and they chose to take action. “It’s that citizen soldier, heroism message,” he said “that we want to get out and memorialize their actions.” Mr. [...]

My sister is being kicked out of her hotel in Austin because other Houstonians actually made reservations to come in and fill up the hotel. She’s just been staying there without reservations. They’re coming home today, but since they have no a/c, they’ll be coming to stay with my folks. That’ll be eleven people and [...]

The oddest thing about the hurricane was how everyone kept telling us to “check out the website.” If I could check out the website, would I be listening to a battery operated radio in the dark? No, I would not. Check out the website. Phooey.

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Friday: 9:30 Our friends left because the wind was picking up and they needed to let the dog out. 10:15 The wind has picked up. Our electricity is going off and on. We don’t have internet now. 10: 25 The lights are going out and staying out for longer. Our friend is asking us if [...]

9:30 Our friends left because the wind was picking up and they needed to let the dog out. 10:15 The wind has picked up. Our electricity is going off and on. We don’t have internet now. 10: 25 The lights are going out and staying out for longer. Our friend is asking us if our [...]

E is going to college and has been for the last two years. But he is a dual credit student. He started when he was 14. Clearly he is brilliant but now it is time to apply for colleges. E doesn’t have a clear idea of what colleges he wants to go to. He does, [...]

That is the difference, I find, between what I think of America and what my son, re-learning American history off the left’s internet, believes. Read the story of how an immigrant child became a radical college student and a disenchanted adult before making the journey to becoming an American. It is brilliantly written. I am [...]

We’re emptying the freezer so that we can have food eaten if the electricity goes out. So I’m making a roast. But the recipe I had I can’t find and the others I don’t have the pieces for. I need to keep some basic things on hand that I can use several different ways. dry [...]

I went to bed last night and thought that even though the hurricane was scary, I was a lot more scared about 9/11 re-happening. I’m glad we have fended off so many terror attacks.

FoxNews.com has a list of terror plots which were unsuccessful since 9/11. Here are just a few: • August 2004, Dhiren Barot: Indian-born leader of terror cell plotted bombings on financial centers (see additional images). • August 2004, James Elshafay and Shahawar Matin Siraj: Sought to plant bomb at New York’s Penn Station during the [...]

My sister is afraid of flying and afraid of storms. We’re in the path of Ike, though it is a category 2, it is a slow moving hurricane with winds of tropical storm level (50 mph) across 275 miles. That means over 24 hours of high winds. She decided to fly home today, instead of [...]

Go watch and listen to this wonderful song about the American flag. It made me cry. (Yes, I know, everything does.)

(Reprinted from last year.) Laura Gilly, age 32, blonde, technical support at Cantor, was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. That’s the most common information available about her on the net. But that is not the sum of Laura Gilly. It isn’t even a very big part. Steven Kretytak of Newsday [...]

CC1 is shutting today at 3. CC2 closed yesterday. SLAC closes today at 3:30. Mandatory evacuation for Galveston began yesterday. Mandatory evacuation for parts of Houston were announced at noon. It looks like we’re going to get hit.

In the last seven years thousands, perhaps millions, have given their lives- hours, days, months, years, arms, eyes, legs, whole lives– to secure our future, our nation. Thank you. We remember.