USS Intrepid moves to New Jersey

I remember when I was a kid, and my family took me up to the USS Intrepid for the first time. I was really into airplanes and military hardware, especially due to the fact that my father was a flight engineer in the Air Force. At the time, my favorite fighter jet was the F-16 Fighting Falcon, due to it's maneuverability and it's adaptability to whatever mission was deemed appropriate. And as I stood on the flight deck, and saw everything from an SR-71 to an FJ-3 Fury.

The picture above is the Intrepid being moved to the Bayonne shipyard for 2 years of repairs and upgrading. The 36,000-ton vessel traveled a speeds upwards of 3 1/2 miles per hours during it's 5 mile voyage to New Jersey, a trip that took 8 hours to complete. I pulled the picture from the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum's website, located here. And if you'd like to read about the move, the Press of Atlantic City had a nice summary of the move, which you can read here.

2 Cartoons in one day!?!?!

Two cartoons in one day?!?! Is it called insanity?

Worse - FREELANCER!

Shocking news!

Deregulation was touted as being a good thing for local Delaware electric companies. Then costs skyrocketed, and people were hit with bills that in some cases were 200% higher than they'd ever paid.

Now, facing a budget shortfall, Dover is wrestling with the same problem of having to past the cost along to customers. Government officials are even discussing the possibility of re-regulating the industry in an attempt to control these skyrocketing costs.

Time to invest in solar panels!

Civil War?

Bush is still sticking to his guns, declaring al-Qaeda behind the uprising in Iraq, and reasoning that it's not a 'Civil War' between Sunni and Shiite, but a wave of 'Sectarian Violence' that is washing over the country.

In the meantime, he'll meet with top Shiite politician Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim this week to figure out what 'Sectarian' means.

Mikhalea Reid auctions her original art for charity

I met Mikhaela Reid at the SPX this year in Bethesda. Her editorial cartoons are very original, and separate themselves from everything else that's being done right now. Plus, she's a real down-to-earth broad, so the least I could do is spread the word for a bit of charity she's involved in.

Mikhaela put up one of her originals on eBay as part of the celebrity fund-raising auction for Center for New Words in Cambridge, MA. The auction ends on Tuesday, December 5th, so get bidding!!!!!

Here's the link to the auction: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250053662316

Happy Holidays!

Well, after a long weekend at my Aunt and Uncle's house in Connecticut, I'm up-and-running again. As it is the last leg of the Christmas shopping season, I figured a cartoon about the unavailability of the Playstation 3 was appropriate.

The futility of waiting in line for one of these $500-plus toys made me think about our current policy in Iraq, and our relentless struggle to keep the country from falling apart.

The government is doing about as good in Iraq as mothers' are here as they try to wrap their fingers around one of these slippery little devices. Good luck to both!