Random Thoughts 8/16/10

• Today is National Airborne Day. God bless all of you that jump out of perfectly good airplanes.
• Our fantasy football draft is two weeks from tonight! We almost have everybody in place, only lacking final word from the last two people. I'm chomping at the bit to get going on this; I love me some football.
• Some experts are putting a the odds of a double-dip recession at better than 50-50. Oh, great.
• I've been to Ciudad Juarez four or five times on missions trips. I always knew it was a little dangerous, but I can't believe how violent it is now: over 6,000 killed in two years. Almost as bad was the Fox news anchor today who was murdering Spanish pronunciation, repeatedly saying "Sigh-you-dad."
  
• Democrat is increasingly meaning socialist. Seventy Democrat members of Congress are also part of the Socialist Party of America. They don't even seem to care if anyone knows. Amazing.
• The average government employee makes twice as much as the average private employee: $123K vs. $61K.
• My older three boys are enthusiastically watching the History Channel's mini-series "America: the Story of Us." It's a nice little overview of American history and they love it.