Two of my favorite water spots include the lower Keys and Cape Cod. Both frequented by sharks.
A surprise. The shark population overall everywhere has plummeted by 71 percent over the last 50 years. Reason: Overfishing based on a demand for fins and meat.
I was not aware. Were you?
Nevertheless, practice caution when you swim. One shark bite could do you in.
Today’s blog a mix and match. A little bit of everything.
Interesting Washington Post article this morning. Subject matter: Middle of the night insomnia has become common. Waking around 3 a.m. Not able to return to sleep. I know. Happens to me about three times a week.
Trump did good in attacking Iran. Not for the U.S. Good for other countries. The primary benefactor may be China, with Russia a distant second. The U.S. could win in name only. Trump personally will come out a loser.
Epstein documents must be released. Trump doing everything to keep them under control and secret. Makes him look suspicious. More than suspicious. The truth will come out at some point.
My sense is Trump is renewing and/or exposing his true relationship with Putin. The Iran War is doing it. Some say the relationship goes back in time to Trump, Putin and Epstein.
It is coming out that Putin and Russia are big into pedophilia and sex slavery. Goes back years ago to Epstein. Epstein was more powerful than most were aware. He was into arms sales and major money transfers. And, promoting young ladies.
Trump says he can “take” Cuba. Adds “I can do anything I want with it.”
A false bravado. No big deal. Cuba is experiencing poverty on a large scale. Electrical power gone. Anyone could walk in and take the island over.
Cold last night in Key West! Had to sleep under a heavy blanket. The high today only 71 degrees.
A bad disease infected a man in Key West. He died this day in 1909 of leprosy in a house on Virginia Street. The house and all contents were destroyed by fire under the direction of Fire Chief Fulferd.
Grover Cleveland: “Men and times change – but principles – never.”
Actress and first Black Miss America Vanessa Williams was born this day in 1963.
The first person to walk in space was Cosmonaut Alexi Leonov. He did so this day in 1963.
Trump says he wants to replace the Trump Kennedy Center floor with a marble one. Italy recently recreated the footprints of the long columns at Rome’s Colosseum in marble. Is Trump playing copy cat?
The marble used by Rome the same travertine marble of ancient Rome. The original marble columns were built 2,000 years ago.
A woman activist and supporter of women’s rights, Susan B. Anthony, died this day in 1906. One of the phrases for which she is remembered: “Organize, agitate, educate, must be our war cry.”
The length of my blogs is interesting. Yesterday around 1,000 words. Today 500. Length of the blog depends on quality and length of the news. Long blog, great and lengthy news. Short, a blah news day. Or maybe it is me and how I feel? This morning I feel terrific. Blog should be long. The news sucked today. So it is the news and not me.
Enjoy your day.