6 words to boating safety
Published 7:32 pm Monday, February 16, 2009
The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary offers a boating safety class (Page D1). It’s an important subject, but safety afloat can very nearly be summarized in one sentence — at least for male boaters: Never relieve yourself over the transom.
In a new e-book, kids from around the world tell President Barack Obama what they think he needs to do over the next four years.
Most of the kids ask for the usual stuff: world peace, an end to pollution, more chocolate pudding for dessert. But one child, little Rushy Limbaugh, age 9, wrote that he thinks Obama needs to fail miserably at everything and slink off into the margins of history, at first reviled, and then forgotten.
Conventional wisdom holds that Americans no longer manufacture anything except for coffee beverages and Option-ARM Miracle Mortgages (well, maybe not so many of those these days). But it turns out that made-in-the-USA hasn’t been completely outsourced to China.
American workers may excel at manufacturing complex things such as Boeing jets, but we’re trailing badly in the field of lead paint on childrens’ toys.
