John Heald is the Senior Cruise Director for Carnival and writes a blog with a candor and character I find very refreshing. He was also aboard the Splendor, the ship that suffered an engine room fire last week, stranding over 3000 passengers – dead in the water without power. The incident and the final arrival [...]
OK, there’s just about 1 hour left for the polls in Virgina. (If you’ve not voted, get out there!) This is the post I’ll be using to update the results as I hear about them and to comment on election stuff in general as the night progresses. For Virginia, the site to check is the [...]
OK, I’ve managed to come to resting place with regard to my project. Might crop back up but I’ve got some stuff to say in the next 14 days that can’t wait, either. Anyway, got a few things coming up. Stay tuned.
Uhhh… ok. A little mathematical context to the spill size can put the environmental catastrophe in perspective. Viewing it through some lenses, it isn’t that huge. The Mississippi River pours as much water into the Gulf of Mexico in 38 seconds as the BP oil leak has done in two months. Yeah, and the sun [...]
Being the techno-type that I am, this notice by HP of their intent to acquire Palm, Inc (makers of the original PDA, the Palm Pilot) caught my eye. HP is apparently going to pay about $1 billion in cash for the struggling handheld computer manufacturer. Palm got itself into position for a turnaround last year, [...]
Sarah Palin comments: The truth is this: by his actions we see a president who seems to be much more comfortable with an American military that isn’t quite so dominant and who feels the need to apologize for America when he travels overseas. Could it be a lack of faith in American exceptionalism? The fact [...]
In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus 2 that the whole world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor of Syria. So all went to be enrolled, each to his own town. And Joseph too went up from Galilee from the town of Nazareth to Judea, to [...]
I’m out of town traveling for the holidays but I wanted to extend to all of my readers a wish for a very Merry Christmas. May the spirit of the season and the grace of God fill your hearts and homes with the peace and joy of the season. Merry Christmas to all… and to [...]
Via Bearing Drift, we have this great interview segment from Bob McDonnell: (Video by WTVR-TV Richmond, Channel 6 News. Excellent embeddable video, guys, well done!)
Former Rep. William Jefferson (D-LA) has been convicted in federal court on several counts including bribery and money laundering: A former U.S. congressman was convicted Wednesday of taking bribes in a case in which agents found $90,000 in his freezer. Former Rep. William Jefferson, a Democrat who had represented parts of New Orleans, was accused [...]
