Posts Tagged ‘Japan’

THE FABULOUS LIFE OF … HARBOR COMMISSIONERS

April 1, 2008

Somehow, we missed Press-Telegram reporter Kris Hanson’s latest port report yesterday–which is too bad, because it kinda reads like a script for the TV series The Fabulous Life of … .
The “of” in this case is Port of Long Beach harbor commissioners, Mayor Bob Foster and Second District Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal, who have flown many [...]

ENOLA GAY PILOT DIES

November 1, 2007

Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. delivered the first atomic bomb
Let’s be honest: you probably didn’t know his name, or if you ever heard it, you probably forgot it–and maybe that’s the way he would have wanted it.

PIRATES AND NORTH KOREAN SEAMEN DON’T MIX

October 30, 2007

So, apparently those pirates who hijacked a Japanese ship full of benzene off the coast of Somalia over the weekend are still steaming away for parts unknown–possibly the Island of Lost Meals–with a U.S. destroyer in some sort of pursuit.
Now comes word via your friends at Associated Press and CNN.com

 

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