They got the stimulus site fixed

OK, they got the site fixed. I just checked for stimulus for my zip code. It says that $64,000 has been spent in my zip code and it has saved/created 0.00 jobs. They can track it down to the one-hundredth of a job created! I am eager to see when my zip will get its first 0.01 job from that $64k spent.

Everyone should check their zip code and see how many hundredth of jobs have been saved/created in their areas. It would be so cool to hear that some zip codes have actually created a tenth of a job! Someday we might hear about a full job created -- we might have to dump a few more billion in first, but if it creates a job, then it must be worth it.

Football Future?

My son is huge. He just turned 6 and he is over 4 feet tall. He is slim, but solid muscle. He has an interest in "football blocking moves", and has demonstrated an expertise in this. My best guess is that he will be a tight end and/or defensive end.

Comparison of Katrina and H1N1 -- levels of government

The sad part is that Katrina and H1N1 are very different disasters in
the timescale of their effects. One type of disaster (Katrina), is
localized, sudden, and immediate, and is perfectly designed for local
government to handle first. The other type is nationwide, and brews
over a longer term of months (H1N1) and is more appropriate for the
Federal government to help with.

Where was the criticism of the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor
of Louisiana for Katrina? Why is it Bush's fault that the city and
state were not prepared? I will give Bush full blame for his wild and
reckless spending, but Katrina is not even 1% his fault. I give the
Mayor of New Orleans 80% of the blame, the Governor of Louisiana 19.5%
of the blame and Bush 0.5% of the blame.

With H1N1, the federal government promised that everyone would have
the vaccine in September, and now here it is heading into December,
and most people still have not had a chance to get it. And these are
the jokers that people want to turn over our entire healthcare system to.

Your Tax Dollars at Work

We spent a trillion dollars on economic stimulus, and here is the website that tracks it.

A Veteran for Bob McDonnell

I enjoyed going to the Veterans for Bob McDonnell rally last night at the Army-Navy Country Club in Alexandria. His daughter Jeanine was there, as well as his father-in-law, who is a Marine veteran of Okinawa and Iwo Jima. There were also several Admirals, Generals, and John McCain's brother Joe in attendance.

It was a fun opportunity to see Bob and hear his passionate drive for the Constitution, lower taxes, stronger defense, more energy, and less waste in government. The overriding theme was aimed at veterans, but this candidate would be good for all Virginians.

My Son is Six Years Old

It seems like just yesterday that Katherine and I went for a run/walk (she would walk her 9-month pregnant body around a 4-mile loop, while I ran the other direction), when her water broke. I was on the other side of the loop while she tried to figure out what to do. She went to the neighborhood park and asked the first person she saw for advice. The woman said, "hop in, I am a labor and delivery nurse!" She took Katherine back to the house and I soon arrived. We went to the hospital at around 8:30 PM and started to get ready for our life-changing moment.

Thomas was born at 2:30 AM on Oct 1, 2003, and our life has gotten better every day since then. Six years of fun -- looking forward to sixty more!