Happy Patriot Day.

And speaking of airplanes, did you hear about the unfair bidding and procurement of refueling tankers from Boeing by a Pentagon official who is now a Boeing executive that has tons of criticism but will probably still be approved anyway even though the plan leases the planes when buying them would cost $5.7-billion dollars less?

And speaking of unfair procurement, my father was telling me that the no-bid Halliburton thing that many Democrats are angry about is not true. I found this article from a few weeks ago suggested that Brown and Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, bid and won contingency contract, and their work is part of that contract. The issue, DAD, is that the no-bid contract for putting out oil fires and rehabilitiating oil fields -- something that never needed to be classified (You mean Iraq has oil?!?!) -- has nothing to do with the logistical contract Brown and Root already has. I'm glad we got that straight.

There's a moment of silence going on right now in my office for Patriot Day. No one seems to have shut up.