Early Weekly Wrapup...

Well since tomorrow is officially “Great Picture Friday” I’ll just wrap up this week today.

As was expected by many here in Atlanta the Coretta Scott King funeral was almost a complete farce. While many gathered to say goodbye to a mother, sister, long time friend and ardent equal rights supporter, others simply saw another media outlet for their venom. It’s disgusting. I must not have a true fighting spirit, because sooner or later I lose the will to bicker and take jabs at people. It’s small, it’s petty, and it’s the prevailing trait in most of the Democratic party and its race pimps near and far. Not being able to lay down grievance for one day in order to pay respect to someone who had the class not to make such inflammatory remarks on such occasions just shows a complete lack of respect for her. And say what you will about “dubya”, but he handled the barbs with grace and composure heretofore unknown to the likes of Joseph Lowry, Ted Kennedy and their ilk. All in all I’m glad I’ve only glossed over the reports of the whole thing, because there’s enough in this world that pisses me off, I don’t need to go looking for more.

I finally got my swimmer’s MP3 player yesterday. I’m going to swim with it for the first time tonight and I can’t wait.

The planning for Belize is coming along nicely. We’re now getting 2 boats instead of one. It came about that the first one we looked at didn’t have a convertible salon. Translation: the kitchen table doesn’t fold down into a double bed like on 95% of sailboats out there. So we decided on a somewhat smaller Cat and a nice 32 foot monohull. I’m glad, it will give us all the best parts of both and make it like sailing two trips instead of one. And now with the MP3 player I can snorkel with tunes in my ears.

Tried to order a watch online; a really sweet Bulova Marine Star. It was discontinued. I’m sad.

Well there may be good news on the Georgia Government front (yeah, don’t hold your breath or anything). Sonny Purdue is presenting a constitutional amendment (the Georgia Constitution that is) that would almost completely eradicate the state and local government’s power of eminent domain in any case where the property is not A): condemned (the bill and amendment also carry a change stating that only elected officials can condemn a property) or B) a public hazard.
Basically it’s saying that the government can’t take your land just because it wants to increase it’s tax revenues. While it’s not comprehensive in these rights, it is a start. And there are several senators and reps that are proposing even stronger bills and measures. With any luck we won’t have to worry about Big Brother stealing our land for a new Wal-Mart anymore. But again, I’m not holding my breath.

And for now that’s about all I’ve got. Hopefully we’ll hear from our good Sergeant soon here on Alone at Sea.

Check back tomorrow for another new segment: The Good Life

Cheers,