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A New Son and The World
2009-07-01 19:33:00 It is now two weeks since my second son was born. Time enough to settle into some sort of routine and to realise that he does in fact have a name, not ?cutie?, ?baby? or ?it?! For my wife and me it has been a traumatic few years, two miscarriages, a house break-in and a shift from a life in Taiwan to one in Edinburgh, Scotland. But we have managed and as Ewan Patrick latches onto life?s nipples I can now look outward once again to what is hopefully a new start for my writings.And what has the world been coping with in the last few weeks, nay months? Some guy called Michael Jackson popped his clogs! Gordon Brown of the UK is still twitching in the ?hot? chair and that guy over in America, that Obama chap is still well-liked despite having failed to instantly fix the economy with a flash tap of a rubber hammer on a couple of bent and rusty nails! Further west and into the darker corners of the world where journalists report in whispers and dictators wear unfashionable sunglasses, nucl... More About: World , The World
Mothercare or perhaps Mothernotcare
2009-06-18 16:33:00 A new Dolby (Ewan Patrick) arrived in the world last Sunday - full of bounce and vigor and with a positive attitude towards keeping his mum (I'm eying up the spare room) up all night with childish demands! And so I went shopping - online of course - for some essential baby items that we had so far resisted purchasing!Mothercare had everything and so I ordered a cot, a mattress and a steriliser, a start to a new life and beginning for the wee one. The thing is though, I did not realize till the delivery turned up late (I'm still waiting for one part after nine days since ordering) how poor Mothercare was! I complained by email to customer service and was fobbed off by three different people (Debbie, Stephanie and George) who quoted "legal talk" to me and what resembled a snotty apology!One year ago (or less) my wife went to a Mothercare store in Fort Kinnaird in Edinburgh and had a disastrous experience. The staff where rude, abrupt and too busy talking to take much notice of her. ...
Shifty-eyed Gordon Brown
2009-06-05 10:53:00 Prime Minister Gordon Brown of the United Kingdom may assume that the world is at war and that the general public mostly wish him to wave the white flag and call ?surrender?. But is that the right thing to do?Up and till now I couldn?t have cared less who was in power, as far as I am concerned one politician is as bad as another but recently Gordon Brown has taken poor leadership to whole new depths. His face tells the full story. He barely carries his haggard and sunken, shifty eyed exterior; he depicts a well-dressed prisoner-of-war who snoops and ferrets out camp titbit's for his captors. Slightly better fed than the average prisoner but with a whole lot of things to hide from his peers!The real problem that the British are suffering under is not as one may assume a Telegraph Newspaper led political scandal that has riveted the world for the last four weeks, nor a weak and inept government that has reeled under an economic crisis that has demanded a leader with stamina and stren...
A freezing flight from Newark to Savannah
2009-03-08 01:37:00 On a recent Continental Airlines flight from Newark to Savannah .....They got all the gates wrong so it was 'snakes and ladders' shuttle buses everywhere before we ended up back at square one. Granny, the dear old flight attendant kept us amused after apologizing profusely for the airport staff mixing up left and right! They seemingly often use one boarding ramp for two planes, in this case "L" side were going to Indianapolis and the "R" side to Savannah.We were told to board on the left side and ended up boarding the wrong plane!Joe the large man sitting half in my seat and testing the windows strength every time he breathed suddenly decided that he had left his mobile phone in the departure lounge. He jumped up in a rush, hitting his head on the locker above and after trampling on my toes and nearly suffocating me he proceeded to occupy the pilots who were trying to get the plane ready for departure. Lucky we were not in the air as his sudden movements would have had the plane ba... More About: Flight
A Letter to Hugo Chavez, Venezuala
2009-02-20 00:30:00 Hi Hugo You don?t mind if I call you ?Hugo? ? I feel as if I know you like an old friend after seeing you shouting on at least 10 different channels last night.I think they must alter the volume upward just for you!Can you tell me something? What is all that shouting really about? I get it, that you have just managed to con a whole nation into letting you stay another decade or two in power but it is all a bit noisy, if you don?t mind my saying so. I saw you standing on the podium with your brain-dead disciples chanting ?Si Va? but don?t they know that you couldn?t add 1+1 never mind lead a nation properly? Cracking jokes then singing, I mean what sort of horse did you ride into town on?I have learnt a few things during my lengthy stay here in Puerto Cabello. The first being that I shouldn?t expect the ship to come into port anytime soon; in other words that the port authorities couldn?t organise a piss-up in a brewery never mind turn ships around.I learnt that most of the population... More About: Letter , Chavez , Hugo Chavez
The Granny and a Virgin Train
2008-12-02 20:22:00 This morning I pulled myself wearily onto a Virgin West Coast Train to work my way down to Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, suffused with cold and cough, frozen from the sudden onslaught of winter and sad to be leaving my wife and son back home.Five minutes into the journey I was back in usual form, watching and learning from those around me, wandering where we all are and where we are all going (in-life I mean as I know that I was heading to Ellesmere Port on the 1051 Virgin West Coast Train, change at Warrington Bank Quay).They overheat these trains you know. I initially took off my coat. Then when I started to perspire profusely, to the discomfort of the summer-dressed granny perched primly next to me, I took off my vivid-yellow mohair polar neck jumper with all the farm animals on it. Five minutes later as I sat there with my large rucksack between my legs (I had mistakenly thought that I could put it on the luggage rack above but they build these things for coats only these days)... More About: Granny
The Granny and a Virgin Train
2008-12-02 20:22:00 This morning I pulled myself wearily onto a Virgin West Coast Train to work my way down to Ellesmere Port near Liverpool, suffused with cold and cough, frozen from the sudden onslaught of winter and sad to be leaving my wife and son back home.Five minutes into the journey I was back in usual form, watching and learning from those around me, wandering where we all are and where we are all going (in-life I mean as I know that I was heading to Ellesmere Port on the 1051 Virgin West Coast Train, change at Warrington Bank Quay).They overheat these trains you know. I initially took off my coat. Then when I started to perspire profusely, to the discomfort of the summer-dressed granny perched primly next to me, I took off my vivid-yellow mohair polar neck jumper with all the farm animals on it. Five minutes later as I sat there with my large rucksack between my legs (I had mistakenly thought that I could put it on the luggage rack above but they build these things for coats only these days)... More About: Granny
The Foul-Smelling Race and a Liberal Dose of Chemicals
2008-11-27 20:57:00 It dawned on me the other day that we must be an extremely pongy nation! This realization did not spring on me whilst I searched for oxygen under the runny armpit of some banker on the London Underground or whilst reeling at my own disgusting morning breath but was born from a million and one adverts on television that tell us that we need to get serious.Hundreds of adverts strongly suggest that life cannot go on without serious assistance. Young lads roam the streets in sadness, isolated and shunned until one fine day they discover deodorant! A liberal all-over dunking of some false-smelling spray drastically changes everything, locked doors open, withered flowers spring into bloom and well, girls, just fall head over heels were before they were instantly turned off. Girls only fall in love with boys who are petrified in various liquids and sprays, boys only fall in love with the wild woman who spends a fortune on a hint-of-a-tint rose, begonia, Japanese pine (maybe that was for th... More About: Liberal , Race , Chemicals , Dose
The Foul-Smelling Race and a Liberal Dose of Chemicals
2008-11-27 20:57:00 It dawned on me the other day that we must be an extremely pongy nation! This realization did not spring on me whilst I searched for oxygen under the runny armpit of some banker on the London Underground or whilst reeling at my own disgusting morning breath but was born from a million and one adverts on television that tell us that we need to get serious.Hundreds of adverts strongly suggest that life cannot go on without serious assistance. Young lads roam the streets in sadness, isolated and shunned until one fine day they discover deodorant! A liberal all-over dunking of some false-smelling spray drastically changes everything, locked doors open, withered flowers spring into bloom and well, girls, just fall head over heels were before they were instantly turned off. Girls only fall in love with boys who are petrified in various liquids and sprays, boys only fall in love with the wild woman who spends a fortune on a hint-of-a-tint rose, begonia, Japanese pine (maybe that was for th... More About: Liberal , Race , Chemicals , Dose
A Wii Experience for the Family
2008-11-22 19:53:00 What a day I have just had. My legs are shivering, my arm muscles ache and the large decorative chicken that graced the mantle piece has forever been consigned to the bin, thank god!It all started when I formulated this cunning plan (partly to help me mate Gordo (Gordon Brown) and his Darling) to get the economy moving forward instead of backward and it involved buying a large present for my wife at great expense.When I arrived in Princes Street in Edinburgh it seemed that half the population of the UK had a similar cunning plan as the shops were jam-packed to overflowing with crazed shoppers. I know when the blinkers are on; the eyes are glazed over in a manic non-compromise glare, the elbows have been resharpened, the mouth is sealed lest the swear words boil out and nobody and nothing is going to get in the way of a bargain spotted! The supposed recession, depression, downturn or call it what you may that is supposedly with us was as far away from reality as I was about to don a ... More About: Family , Experience , The Family
A Wii Experience for the Family
2008-11-22 19:53:00 What a day I have just had. My legs are shivering, my arm muscles ache and the large decorative chicken that graced the mantle piece has forever been consigned to the bin, thank god!It all started when I formulated this cunning plan (partly to help me mate Gordo (Gordon Brown) and his Darling) to get the economy moving forward instead of backward and it involved buying a large present for my wife at great expense.When I arrived in Princes Street in Edinburgh it seemed that half the population of the UK had a similar cunning plan as the shops were jam-packed to overflowing with crazed shoppers. I know when the blinkers are on; the eyes are glazed over in a manic non-compromise glare, the elbows have been resharpened, the mouth is sealed lest the swear words boil out and nobody and nothing is going to get in the way of a bargain spotted! The supposed recession, depression, downturn or call it what you may that is supposedly with us was as far away from reality as I was about to don a ... More About: Family , Experience , The Family
Silas E Parks and the Pirate Attack
2008-11-18 22:34:00 I have at last managed to write another SILAS E PARKS adventure - the beginning of which can be found below.Silas E Parks and the Pirate Attack Pirates have been grabbing headlines recently. They seem to be grabbing ships from all nooks and crannies of the oceans and it makes me wonder what all the fuss is about. I mean, when I was attacked and boarded by pirates we would have fought them and chased them off like the rogues that they were had we been able to get to them. We would have stood up and faced them man-to-man, guns and all, and showed them that we weren?t sitting down on the job. No Siree, not me and certainly not my crew!It was in 1993 when this particular nasty incident occurred. I was the Captain on this rather large oil tanker and having loaded up in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia we were heading down the Malacca Straits towards Singapore for bunkers and much needed stores. After that it was straight on down the hill to Australia and hopefully for me a flight home for a well ...
Silas E Parks and the Pirate Attack
2008-11-18 22:34:00 I have at last managed to write another SILAS E PARKS adventure - the beginning of which can be found below.Silas E Parks and the Pirate Attack Pirates have been grabbing headlines recently. They seem to be grabbing ships from all nooks and crannies of the oceans and it makes me wonder what all the fuss is about. I mean, when I was attacked and boarded by pirates we would have fought them and chased them off like the rogues that they were had we been able to get to them. We would have stood up and faced them man-to-man, guns and all, and showed them that we weren?t sitting down on the job. No Siree, not me and certainly not my crew!It was in 1993 when this particular nasty incident occurred. I was the Captain on this rather large oil tanker and having loaded up in Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia we were heading down the Malacca Straits towards Singapore for bunkers and much needed stores. After that it was straight on down the hill to Australia and hopefully for me a flight home for a well ...
A Letter to Mr George Osborne
2008-11-15 22:35:00 Dear Mr George Osborne As an introduction to myself and to why I write to you on this very fine Saturday evening in November, I am an extremely average member of the British public who simply cannot fathom how you can wake up in the morning without cursing yourself in the bathroom mirror. I therefore have decided to put pen to paper in an attempt to stop hitting my own head against a brick wall in complete frustration over your total and utter stupidity, nay pathetic attempts to be a politician! I have for the last few decades managed to ignore and weasel out of getting sensationally involved in the over-hyped and pointless journalistic license surrounding the Royal Family, political waywardness and social freaks. In this vein I have managed to take no further interest in your recent alleged exploits re: Russian Oligarchs and obvious desperate ploys to fill the kitty but when I am faced with the headline "Gordon Brown risks run on the pound, says George Osborne" I have no choice but ... More About: Letter
A Letter to Mr George Osborne
2008-11-15 22:35:00 Dear Mr George Osborne As an introduction to myself and to why I write to you on this very fine Saturday evening in November, I am an extremely average member of the British public who simply cannot fathom how you can wake up in the morning without cursing yourself in the bathroom mirror. I therefore have decided to put pen to paper in an attempt to stop hitting my own head against a brick wall in complete frustration over your total and utter stupidity, nay pathetic attempts to be a politician! I have for the last few decades managed to ignore and weasel out of getting sensationally involved in the over-hyped and pointless journalistic license surrounding the Royal Family, political waywardness and social freaks. In this vein I have managed to take no further interest in your recent alleged exploits re: Russian Oligarchs and obvious desperate ploys to fill the kitty but when I am faced with the headline "Gordon Brown risks run on the pound, says George Osborne" I have no choice but ... More About: Letter
A Letter to David Cameron
2008-11-11 13:40:00 Dear Mr Cameron I have over the last few months had my brain drilled and gouged by your constant nattering on the family box! My recent purchase of a flat-screen television, my timely payments by direct-debit for a color license and the fact that my settee was bought at great expense (on the understanding that its main function would be to support my family in comfort whilst watching the box) did not involve having to listen to you rabbiting away.I appreciate that you are not on every channel and certainly my flat screen came with a remote control but the batteries have gone and so I have to get up to change the channel every time your talking mug unexpectedly appears.What annoys me most is that you just talk! In actual fact I could compare you to that hockey-mum who recently provided America with a decades worth of cruel jokes as I found out that she can talk but then she never really said anything worth listening too. And by the way she was instrumental in ensuring that poor Mr Joh... More About: Letter , David , David Cameron
A Letter to David Cameron
2008-11-11 13:40:00 Dear Mr Cameron I have over the last few months had my brain drilled and gouged by your constant nattering on the family box! My recent purchase of a flat-screen television, my timely payments by direct-debit for a color license and the fact that my settee was bought at great expense (on the understanding that its main function would be to support my family in comfort whilst watching the box) did not involve having to listen to you rabbiting away.I appreciate that you are not on every channel and certainly my flat screen came with a remote control but the batteries have gone and so I have to get up to change the channel every time your talking mug unexpectedly appears.What annoys me most is that you just talk! In actual fact I could compare you to that hockey-mum who recently provided America with a decades worth of cruel jokes as I found out that she can talk but then she never really said anything worth listening too. And by the way she was instrumental in ensuring that poor Mr Joh... More About: Letter , David , David Cameron
A Career Move from Ship to Shore
2008-11-09 12:02:00 Seafarers are sometimes required to move ashore, maybe to take their skills into a shipping company?s office, to give up the roaming life due to poor and deteriorating health, to appease the nagging wife or to simply climb to the next rung of the ladder. Whatever the reason that provokes the move it is hard to do none-the-less thus the reason why many talk about it but never actually get around to doing anything.I gave up seafaring after twenty-five years of ploughing the ocean waves, a mixture of ?appeasing the nagging wife?, a climb up the next rung of the ladder and because I was royally fed up of not being there when my young son had a birthday, when he uttered his first words and managed to pee into the toilet without spraying the carpet first! All these things provoked me to make a subtle change in my lifestyle and career and without looking back I applied for jobs ashore, got a job ashore and moved ashore thus closing the door on a long, excitable and an extremely enjoyable c... More About: Career , Shore , Move , Ship
A Career Move from Ship to Shore
2008-11-09 12:02:00 Seafarers are sometimes required to move ashore, maybe to take their skills into a shipping company?s office, to give up the roaming life due to poor and deteriorating health, to appease the nagging wife or to simply climb to the next rung of the ladder. Whatever the reason that provokes the move it is hard to do none-the-less thus the reason why many talk about it but never actually get around to doing anything.I gave up seafaring after twenty-five years of ploughing the ocean waves, a mixture of ?appeasing the nagging wife?, a climb up the next rung of the ladder and because I was royally fed up of not being there when my young son had a birthday, when he uttered his first words and managed to pee into the toilet without spraying the carpet first! All these things provoked me to make a subtle change in my lifestyle and career and without looking back I applied for jobs ashore, got a job ashore and moved ashore thus closing the door on a long, excitable and an extremely enjoyable c... More About: Career , Shore , Move , Ship
Now it is time for a Dynamic British Leader
2008-11-05 10:23:00 It was amazing to watch the elections unfold in America and I must admit, although I find it teeth-extracting to do so, that America and the Americans managed to do do something right for once.They went to the polls and they voted overwhelmingly for a leader who they could be proud of. This was as black and white as any result was every going to get.After-all, what is a leader, what do people want in a leader? In answer to my very own question I would say, a leader is somebody to believe in and a powerful body that takes everything in his/her stride. Somebody to follow when times are tough and somebody who has some answers when nobody else does and somebody who acts decisively whether right or wrong, somebody to believe and trust in when the clouds threaten and who is always there doing something and not simply arguing about it with some pasty-faced opposition party-member! A leader is a man or woman, black or white or simply takes up the role and acts like any leader should.And wha... More About: Time , British , Dynamic , Leader
Now it is time for a Dynamic British Leader
2008-11-05 10:23:00 It was amazing to watch the elections unfold in America and I must admit, although I find it teeth-extracting to do so, that America and the Americans managed to do do something right for once.They went to the polls and they voted overwhelmingly for a leader who they could be proud of. This was as black and white as any result was every going to get.After-all, what is a leader, what do people want in a leader? In answer to my very own question I would say, a leader is somebody to believe in and a powerful body that takes everything in his/her stride. Somebody to follow when times are tough and somebody who has some answers when nobody else does and somebody who acts decisively whether right or wrong, somebody to believe and trust in when the clouds threaten and who is always there doing something and not simply arguing about it with some pasty-faced opposition party-member! A leader is a man or woman, black or white or simply takes up the role and acts like any leader should.And wha... More About: Time , British , Dynamic , Leader
Papa, Barack Obama shouts too loud!
2008-11-01 22:53:00 As the US Election 2008 draws closer I and probably more people than ever before wander who will win! Will it be the botox-user, the expressionless and permanently hunched old-guy or the bamboozling big-mouthed black guy?Then again who really cares? Are they not all born from the same mould?Despite my interest, nay fascination in the show as it has unfolded my son put everything into perspective for me!It was a cold yet crisp Saturday morning, one of my first days off in many, and as I sat snuggled into the corner of the settee with a cup of steaming Brazilian coffee in my hands I switched on the BBC news for the worlds latest. My four-year old son was in front of me, scrunched-up over the coffee table studiously drawing submarines and fire engines that looked to me like a bad day-out at an Italian restaurant after a gang of seriously drunk carpet-fitters in Glasgow had provoked the local don!Barack Obama was on the news, hastily regaling his poster-waving troops to arm-aching cheer... More About: Papa , Loud
Papa, Barack Obama shouts too loud!
2008-11-01 22:53:00 As the US Election 2008 draws closer I and probably more people than ever before wander who will win! Will it be the botox-user, the expressionless and permanently hunched old-guy or the bamboozling big-mouthed black guy?Then again who really cares? Are they not all born from the same mould?Despite my interest, nay fascination in the show as it has unfolded my son put everything into perspective for me!It was a cold yet crisp Saturday morning, one of my first days off in many, and as I sat snuggled into the corner of the settee with a cup of steaming Brazilian coffee in my hands I switched on the BBC news for the worlds latest. My four-year old son was in front of me, scrunched-up over the coffee table studiously drawing submarines and fire engines that looked to me like a bad day-out at an Italian restaurant after a gang of seriously drunk carpet-fitters in Glasgow had provoked the local don!Barack Obama was on the news, hastily regaling his poster-waving troops to arm-aching cheer... More About: Papa , Loud
The American Investigation - Day Ten
2008-10-12 04:57:00 As I near the end of my investigations into American s and the life here I wander if I have done them justice! I have restricted myself to Mexicans in Houston and Cubans in Florida! Is that representative of America as a whole? I didn?t after-all extend my investigations and subsequent revelations into life up North, the Vietnamese immigrants in New York, the black gangs in downtown Detroit, the Chinese Triads in San Francisco, the Italians in Washington DC or the illegal immigrants throughout the whole country! And on that subject I didn?t manage to swap view with any home-grown Americans!But never mind!The weather is nice in Houston just now! Hurricane Ike certainly ravaged the area, more-so down south where rooftops still lie in the roads, where expensive yachts are piled up any-which-way-but-loose like old cars at the scrap yard and where certain shops and houses are still boarded up to keep them from falling down! I felt sorry for a taxi-driver I had today! He started to give m... More About: Investigation
The American Investigation - Day Ten
2008-10-12 04:57:00 As I near the end of my investigations into American s and the life here I wander if I have done them justice! I have restricted myself to Mexicans in Houston and Cubans in Florida! Is that representative of America as a whole? I didn?t after-all extend my investigations and subsequent revelations into life up North, the Vietnamese immigrants in New York, the black gangs in downtown Detroit, the Chinese Triads in San Francisco, the Italians in Washington DC or the illegal immigrants throughout the whole country! And on that subject I didn?t manage to swap view with any home-grown Americans!But never mind!The weather is nice in Houston just now! Hurricane Ike certainly ravaged the area, more-so down south where rooftops still lie in the roads, where expensive yachts are piled up any-which-way-but-loose like old cars at the scrap yard and where certain shops and houses are still boarded up to keep them from falling down! I felt sorry for a taxi-driver I had today! He started to give m... More About: Investigation
The American Investigation - Day Nine
2008-10-11 17:08:00 As I staggered along the sun-baked cracked earth, I knew that the only reason to continue was to get to the other end! ?I need water? I felt like screaming out but nobody was there to listen!It?s a long story and how I came to be in this dessert without food or assistance is well ? a pile of dung! It all is a pile of dung! I wasn?t in a dessert or in need of water I was just in an extremely large car park called America!I got the driver to drop me off at Circuit City and as the name suggests it sells computers and such-like. Not finding what I wanted there I decided to walk to Wal Mart! And that people is where my story starts!As I have mentioned before, nobody walks in America! To get from one place to the next requires a car! Even the local Chase Bank is a drive-in! But I walked as I didn?t have a car and apart from the loud honking noises as irate drivers queried the ?fool? I was the only two-footed soul in existence! No pavements mind you, just dirt tracks that perhaps the cows ... More About: American , Investigation
The American Investigation - Day Nine
2008-10-11 17:08:00 As I staggered along the sun-baked cracked earth, I knew that the only reason to continue was to get to the other end! ?I need water? I felt like screaming out but nobody was there to listen!It?s a long story and how I came to be in this dessert without food or assistance is well ? a pile of dung! It all is a pile of dung! I wasn?t in a dessert or in need of water I was just in an extremely large car park called America!I got the driver to drop me off at Circuit City and as the name suggests it sells computers and such-like. Not finding what I wanted there I decided to walk to Wal Mart! And that people is where my story starts!As I have mentioned before, nobody walks in America! To get from one place to the next requires a car! Even the local Chase Bank is a drive-in! But I walked as I didn?t have a car and apart from the loud honking noises as irate drivers queried the ?fool? I was the only two-footed soul in existence! No pavements mind you, just dirt tracks that perhaps the cows ... More About: American , Investigation
The American Investigation - Day Eight
2008-10-09 16:13:00 I?ve been on a ship for a few days doing my day job of superintendency and its been great not to have read any newspapers or listened to any experts blow hot air into a faded wallet!I have though heard snippets from the television ? as the credit-crisis turns into unmitigated disaster (especially for executives and directors of banks boo hoo) ? I was surprised out of my bowl of rice and fish heads to discover that Britain has topped America for bailout offerings!There was old America captivating the world with traumatic on-the-knees threats of global meltdown, of far-reaching consequences and near tomato throwing hysterics, the actions of American politicians unveiling a drama that was far more entertaining than Dallas ever was, when all of a sudden Britain ounces a bailout package that is of a greater value than their token offering amounted to! Last I looked the British to the American economy is a single peanut to a family sized jar of peanut butter yet without any fanfare, witho... More About: Investigation
The American Investigation - Day Eight
2008-10-09 16:13:00 I?ve been on a ship for a few days doing my day job of superintendency and its been great not to have read any newspapers or listened to any experts blow hot air into a faded wallet!I have though heard snippets from the television ? as the credit-crisis turns into unmitigated disaster (especially for executives and directors of banks boo hoo) ? I was surprised out of my bowl of rice and fish heads to discover that Britain has topped America for bailout offerings!There was old America captivating the world with traumatic on-the-knees threats of global meltdown, of far-reaching consequences and near tomato throwing hysterics, the actions of American politicians unveiling a drama that was far more entertaining than Dallas ever was, when all of a sudden Britain ounces a bailout package that is of a greater value than their token offering amounted to! Last I looked the British to the American economy is a single peanut to a family sized jar of peanut butter yet without any fanfare, witho... More About: Investigation
The American Investigation - Day Seven
More articles from this author:2008-10-09 16:10:00 After a good nights sleep at the Quality Inn in Houston I was driven helter-skelter to Freeport where I joined the good ship Mark C! This vessel was discharging windmill blades ashore and once completed and after being given permission to sail on the vessel to Houston itself the ropes were let go and the vessel steamed on its merry way!The very American Pilot (the guy to whom ship Captains are legally bound to listen to as they navigate in enclosed waters) carried on his conversation without falter as I entered the bridge!?20 degrees to starboard?? He said not really listening to the half-hearted grunts given out of politeness! He continued talking loudly to the Captain and the AB at the steering wheel not two feet away!???I was down here only yesterday when a fast boat came out o?nowhere??.. ?136 degrees kind sir?! He shouted to the AB at the wheel????well, I said to the Captain, you all see that. Well, I think the Captain did see it as he was as white as a ghost ????Hard a port th... More About: Investigation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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