Dear Mr. President

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA


By Lou Pritchett (at American Family Association)


Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient.

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

June 6, 65 years later

I'm beneath the task of adding to all that's been written today.

Simple day of working on house/yard projects.
Got up, ran the flag up out front. Was a few too many minutes after 0800 so I passed on blowing colors this morning.

Posted a wakeup txt message to the Son&Heir reminding him of the date (he was away overnighting closer to the beach with a buddy for morning dawn patrol surf).



Here's a couple posts that set me to fighting with dust in my eye.

This is a note from a French LtC to the 82nd, serving together with them in Afghanistan currently. LINK


h/t MajorZ

Most Omaha Beach first wave stories ended before they began. Yet a few flames survived to flicker and then flame to life and liberty. LINK

h/t Lex

R.I.P. (?)

Uncle Tommie's post of the day:

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St. Paul , Minnesota , points out some interesting facts concerning the Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29

Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000

Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million

Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2...1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican s won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of the country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..."

Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's population already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

Now if Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegals and they vote,...

And yet, "We grieve not at those without hope..."

Maybe the South WILL rise again. /heh

Down that old dirt road

A few pix from the trip I took with the Son&Heir out to the old family farm in Iowa last month. Might be repeating a couple from an earlier post. I haven't figured out the online album thing.




















It's all left me a bit reflective (and writing less) the past couple weeks. Thinking about foundations I s'pose.


"Lord teach us to number our days."

Once more with feeling -- Uncle Ted

This video has been widely circulated but in case you missed it...

Even if you've seen it before it bears repeating.

Moving along...

Inspite of all the drama yesterday in the wonderful world of electrical interconnects...

Got back to (successfully) finding another sponsor for a beta build today. We should be able to get this through reflow oven without them disassembling themselves. Our failure analysis was conclusive and the fix straight forward to implemente. We actually got a couple fabs authorized by program managers/engineer leads today and moving on a couple fronts. Inspite yesterday's grief folks are pretty excited about the fab technology's ability to reduce leadtime. Sorry to disappoint all the chicken littles. (snark)

The problem now is going to be managing expectations (and loading of the process) until it's more fully proven and cap exp released to expand to full production capacity.

The process is still only and R&D scale process, so, daily capacity for new process circuit layers is really low. At least we've got line operators running it now (though still under R&D supervision). Practically the means we're halfway to releasing control to production. I expect the production level doc' to be the long pull.

In other news relating to real life and why we work to live...

Daughter #3 has an ensemble part in local production of Mulan.
Opening is this week so much excitement with tech and dress rehearsals and such...

There I was...

...just minding my business, getting 'er done at work, reporting to working group back at the office via e-mail on a very full day on the road with a supplier. Summarizing what was accomplished in terms of failure analysis, corrective action, brainstroming quality improvements, moving new product and technology qual's forward when...

BAM!!!

In comes the e-mail from a collegue taking personal offense at learning curve problems with a revolutionary, proprietary PWB fab process and presuming himself to speak for a whole cross functional group of us who've been working an R&D project for about 4 years (himself only recently and peripherally involved). Implying things about the character of our supplier who has participated as a partner at great risk and expense in a project with unknown payoff likelihood. I'll just chill tonight, count to 10. Then count to 1000. It wouldn't be prudent respond to here in public. All I've got to say about that is...

NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!