Boat Forum / Boats / September 2008

I was cleaning out my old "stuff" tackle box today and came across
these - I have about a dozen of them in different sizes.
http://www.swsports.org/images/Pictures/IMG_0018.JPG
They are weighted at the bottom (the white end) which a hole through

Jobless rate soars to 6.1%
Unemployment surges to 5-year high as employers cut workers for eighth
straight month, bringing '08 job losses to 605,000.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The unemployment rate soared to a nearly

From McCain's speech tonight:
"McCain invoked the five years he spent in a North Vietnamese prison. "I
fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's,"
he said. "I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was

Well, we got the sanding done and painted the inside of the Brockway
yesterday. Battleship grey was in the Goof isle at Home Depot,
perfect, flat, nice. It was pretty hot so I had to move quickly, but I
was using a power roller with a pad attachment too. Great for doing

Does everyone know he is a POW?

Don Corleone, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Chavez, Castro, oh, and Obama

During our Labor Day weekend picnic I talked about our planned road
trip to Baltimore, NYC, Boston and Maine in mid October.
My BIL suggested a visit to Mystic Harbor in New Haven, CT while
traveling from NYC to Boston.

http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/palin_earmarks.html
Sarah Palin, John McCain, and Earmarks
By Scott Lilly
September 4, 2008

http://www.boattest.com/Resources/view_news.aspx?NewsID=2849
--Vic

There was NOTHING in McCain's speech that addressed any of the
horrifically serious problems facing this country.  It was flag-waving
palaver, beginning to end.

Apparently the leadership of the Republican Party thinks voters are
turned off by specifics, and so Sen. John McCain's acceptance speech as
its presidential nominee last night was a hodgepodge of generalities,
musings on courage, reminiscence about his years as a POW in Vietnam,

http://biggeekdaddy.com/sitebuilder/images/Change2-416x374.jpg
Some pics are worth framing.

I have been fixing the MiniCup sailboats (homebuilt 12') and there is
something about working with wood that seems relaxing compared to
working with metal.  I think it is because mistakes are less costly,
tolerances are more like .0625 instead of .0005" and its just "nice".

MoveOn.org is soliciting members to send letters to newspapers whining
about Sarah Palin. Part of their solicitation goes like this:
"One of the best ways to get the word out about Palin is to write a letter
to the editor of your local paper. Today's a great day to write because