Tag: Winter

Southwest Airlines, George Santos, Clear Secure
ecthompsonmd March 21, 2023

Happy holidays to everyone! I hope everybody survived. I hope that tons of snow (Buffalo, New York), bitterly cold wind chills, and subzero temperatures didn’t freeze out your holiday spirit. Just before Christmas, a large cold front moved across the country. It brought severe winter weather to most of the country. Besides the freezing cold temperatures, wind gusts in the 40- to 50-miles-per-hour range made this a severe winter storm. On December 23, as winter storm Elliott hit the Midwest, over 4,500 flights were canceled. With Christmas just around the corner, this was disastrous for holiday plans. Over the next two

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Socialist Snowplows
ecthompsonmd February 6, 2011

Here in Houston, I’ve not seen any Tea Party/Republican Party volunteers out over last two icy days to sand the roads, direct traffic if signals were out, or respond to accidents on the road. Where was the Tea Party? When are these folks going to step up and stop letting government do it all? (Above—Socialism advancing. Photo by SnowKing 1.) I wonder if anywhere in our wintery nation, Republican voters got together as self-reliant citizens to refuse the socialist city, county, and state snow plows? Rather than letting government do the work of free people, where were the citizen-shovelers? Sacrifice is always

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Chargers and Seahawks are home for the winter
ecthompsonmd January 16, 2007

Yuck, yuck, yuck.  As great a day was Saturday was of football, Sunday was as bad.  Look, for over three years the football “pundits” have been trying to crown Tom Brady as the next great Hall of Fame quarterback.  He’s a combination of Elway and Montana and what ever other Hall of Fame quarterback they can think of at the time.  Well, Tom Brady is human just like all the rest of us.  He basically stunk up the field for the majority of the game on Sunday.  The only thing that stunk worse than Tom Brady would be the San Diego Chargers. 

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